Question: Which direction from Eden was the town of Nod?
Answer: East (Genesis 4:16)
Comments: It was from the Bible physical description of Cain's exile that Pulitzer Prize winning author John Steinbeck (1902-1968) found the title of his famous 1952 novel East of Eden, which was adapted into a film starring James Dean.
Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. (Genesis 4:16)
The book ties its themes together with references and parallels with the biblical account of Cain and Abel (Genesis 4:1-16). Steinbeck's allusion to Cain and Abel is furthered by the naming of the Trask family as the first letters of the names of the brothers match throughout the generations (Charles and Adam, Cal and Aron).
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