The Book of Lies (Meltzer novel) common, setting off the hunt for the world's first murder weapon. The Book of Lies (Meltzer novel) The Book of Lies is a novel written by Brad Meltzer which assumes a connection between the story of Cain and Abel and the superhero Superman, written by Jerry Siegel. According to WorldCat, the book is in 2133 libraries. The book has been translated into Polish, Hebrew, Italian, German, and Korean. The book of Genesis tells the story of the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain; the world's first recorded murder. But the Bible doesn't say what weapon Cain used. That detail
Historicity of the Bible with more than two points of view.| There is great scholarly controversy on the historicity particularly of those events recounted in the Biblical narratives prior to the Babylonian captivity in the 6th century BCE. Regarding the debate over the historicity of ancient Israel, the maximalist position holds that the accounts of the United Monarchy and the early kings of Israel, David and Saul, are to be taken as largely historical. In 2001, Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman published "The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts" which advocated a view midway