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Furthermore, Cain killed Abel just as Set killed Osiris.  Claudius killed his brother in the famous Shakespearean play. So the stories live on.[/quote]

Logic, please. You say this like every story must be based on some earlier story. Not true. Sometimes stories (Hamlet) are based on timeless human truths. Brothers kill each other, and Shakespeare didn't have to look back to Cain and Able to come up with this plot line. Moreover, the story about Cain and Able doesn't invaldate actual incidents of fratricide that occur 1000s of years later. So why should some pre-existing story (involving far-fetched golden penises  and/or chronological errors, no less) have any bearing on the truth of God sending Jesus? [/quote]

Elizabethan Theatre was based on Greek and Roman models.  
http://shakespearean.org.uk/elizthea1.htm

[quote]Originally English Tragedies and Comedies tended to be written in close imitation of Greek and Roman models and much was made of the Classical rules of writing plays - rules which Renaissance writers took from Aristotle’s Poetics and expanded upon.[/quote]

Furthermore, the bible (yikes) was oftentimes inspiration for Shakespeare's plays.

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/faq/shakespeareinspired.html
[quote]However, we can see from Shakespeare's work that no source had a more profound impact on his writing than the Bible. [/quote][quote][/quote]

And are you questioning his obsession with Cain and Abel?

lol

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/quotes/shakespeareoncain.html

[quote]Shakespeare, Cain, and Abel

Like all citizens of Tudor England, Shakespeare would have had an intimate knowledge of every story in the Bible. There are scores of biblical references in Shakespeare's works, but the story of Cain and Abel seems to have been one of his favorites, as we see in the following quotations.

This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,
To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.
"1 Henry VI" (1.3.40)

Further I say and further will maintain 
Upon his bad life to make all this good,
That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,
Suggest his soon-believing adversaries, 
And consequently, like a traitor coward,
Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood: 
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, 
Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth, 
To me for justice and rough chastisement; 
And, by the glorious worth of my descent, 
This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.
"Richard II" (2.1.99)

They love not poison that do poison need,
Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,
I hate the murderer, love him murdered.
The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,
But neither my good word nor princely favour:
With Cain go wander through shades of night
And never show thy head by day nor light.
Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,
That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow. 
"Richard II" (5.6.39)

Let heaven kiss earth! now let not Nature's hand 
Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
And let this world no longer be a stage 
To feed contention in a lingering act;
But let one spirit of the first-born Cain
Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,
And darkness be the burier of the dead!
"2 Henry IV" (1.1.207)

O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,
A brother's murder.
"Hamlet" (3.3.40)

That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: 
how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were 
Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It 
might be the pate of a politician, which this ass
now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God,
might it not? 
"Hamlet" (5.1.77)

I have heard you say 
That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:
If that be true, I shall see my boy again;
For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,
To him that did but yesterday suspire, 
There was not such a gracious creature born.
But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud 
And chase the native beauty from his cheek 
And he will look as hollow as a ghost,
As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,
And so he'll die; and, rising so again,
When I shall meet him in the court of heaven
I shall not know him: therefore never, never
Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.
"King John" (3.4.80)

You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit
What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five
weeks old as yet?
"Love's Labor's Lost" (4.2.40)
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My point is this - that we ALL influenced by past events and stories.  And these stories live on forever in great works.  They're known as ALLUSIONS.

Go study, my friend, and you'll start to see connections.  Literature is based on myth, and the bible is literature.

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