A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- 'All is vanity, saith the preacher'
- A bruised reed He shall not break
- A curse on Herod
- A handful of dust
- A hymn to Christ
- A Laodicean
- A little East of Jordan
- A man who had fallen among thieves
- A small fig tree
- A song for Simeon
- A word made flesh is seldom
- Aaron
- Aaron's Rod
- Abel's Blood
- Abraham
- Abraham to kill him
- Absalom
- Absalom and Achitophel
- Absalom, Absalom!
- According to the Mighty Working
- Adam's curse
- Adam's dream
- Advent (Used in the title of a number of poems)
- After the Fall
- After this, the judgement
- Agape
- All my sons
- Altar, The
- And death shall have no dominion
- And he answered them nothing
- And there was a great calm
- Angry Samson
- Annunciation, The
- Anti-Christ, or the Reunion of Christendom
- Armageddon
- As Adam early in the morning
- Ascension
- Ascension Day 1964
- Ascension-day
- At Calvary near the Ancre
- At the manger Mary sings
- Babel
- Babel Tower
- Back to Methuselah
- Ballad of the Bread Man
- Battle of Gibeon, The
- Beauty of Job's daughters, The
- Bedridden peasant to the unknown God, The
- Being breadlike
- Belshazzar had a letter
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Abel's Blood
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PoemDefinition
Abel was murdered by his brother Cain. Abel's blood cries for vengeanceCultural References
Big ideas: Cain and AbelThe second son of Adam and Eve and first murder victim in the Bible.
The term used in the New Testament to indicate the equality of all the members of Christ's 'family', the church.
The firstborn son of Adam and Eve. His killing in jealousy of his brother Abel is the first murder described in the Bible, for which Cain was cursed.
Important word in the Bible which can have several meanings: a symbol of life; death (through the shedding of blood); guilt (having blood on one's hands); or sacrifice (as a way of bringing about forgiveness for sin).
Revenge; an act of retaliation for a real or imagined injury, in which the revenger sees him- or herself as entitled to carry out their own idea of justice and to take the law into their own hands.
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