| Summary: | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Reading Cain and Abel -- The "Crime Report": Genesis 4:1-16 -- 2. Balancing Justice and Mercy -- An Admonition to the Jury -- Justice and Mercy -- 3. Introducing Our Expert Witnesses -- The Talmudic Masters -- The Medieval Bible Scholars -- 4. Competent to Stand Trial? -- Faith, Fate, and Forensics -- A Forensic Moral Health Assessment for the Heavenly and Earthly Courts -- 5. Interrogating the Interrogator -- A Deposition of God -- Commentary on God's Deposition -- 6. Day One of the Trial -- Opening Arguments of the Prosecution and Defense -- First Witness of the Day: Cain -- Commentary on Cain's Testimony I: Courtroom Poetry -- Commentary on Cain's Testimony II: Looking at Cain -- Commentary on Cain's Testimony III: What Is in a Name? -- Second Witness of the Day: Rabbi Yonatan ben Uzziel -- Commentary on Rabbi ben Uzziel's Testimony -- Third Witness of the Day: Rashi -- Commentary on Rashi's Testimony -- Fourth Witnesses of the Day: Rabbi Stama, Rabbi Joshua, and Rabbi Judah -- Second Witness Rabbi Yonatan ben Uzziel Returns to the Stand -- Commentary on the Testimonies of Rabbis Stama, Joshua, Judah, and ben Uzziel -- Fifth Witness of the Day: Rabbi Tanḥuma -- Commentary on Rabbi Tanḥuma's Testimony and Cain's Response to God -- Final Witness of the Day: Rabbi Eliezer Finkelman -- Commentary on Rabbi Finkelman's Testimony -- Commentary: Wrapping Up Day One of the Trial -- 7. Day Two of the Trial -- First (and Only) Witness of the Day: Sin -- Commentary on Sin's Testimony -- 8. Day Three of the Trial -- First Witness of the Day: Eve -- Commentary on Eve's Testimony -- Second Witness of the Day: Adam -- Commentary on Adam's Testimony -- 9. Day Four of the Trial -- A Statement by the Blood of Abel Adamson (Recording) -- 10. Day Four Continues.
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