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Was The Biblical Cain The World's First Urban Planner?

Posted by: Brenda Meyer

15 September 2005 - 5:00am

In 'Fallen', David Maine's latest novel, he espouses the idea that Cain invented streets and marketplaces before murdering his brother.

"Elaborating on a brief reference in Genesis to one of the world's first settlements, Maine writes that 'Henoch the man had not designed Henoch the city. Cain had done so, from his hidden lair. Henoch had merely carried out his instructions. The boulevards and bazaars and palaces and plazas were all Cain's doing.'

The idea is intriguing: Cain, the murderer doomed by God's mark on his face to be shunned by all humanity, as the world's first urban planner."

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Source: The Miami Herald, September 15, 2005
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