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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Abel
Not Cain's brother. In these two verses Abel is a place: the great stone of Abel in a Beth-shemite's field where the ark came to rest, and a short form of the northern city people went to for good advice.
Not Cain's brother. In these two verses Abel is a place: the great stone of Abel in a Beth-shemite's field where the ark came to rest, and a short form of the northern city people went to for good advice.
In these two references, Abel is a place name, not Cain and Abel's brother. It designates “the great stone of Abel” in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, where the ark rested after its return from Philistine territory (1 Samuel 6:18), and appears as shorthand for the northern city of Abel (Abel-beth-maacah), proverbial as a place where wise counsel could be sought, during Joab's pursuit of the rebel Sheba (2 Samuel 20:18).
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- 1 Samuel 6:18
