“And Cain spoke to Abel his brother” (Gen. 4:8): What did they argue about? They said ‘Let us divide up the world.’ One took the land and the other the movable objects. This one said, ‘The land that you are standing on is mine,’ that one said ‘What you are wearing is mine.’ This one said, ‘Take your clothes off,’ that one said, ‘Fly into the air.’ Because of this, “Cain rose up against his brother Abel…” R. Yehoshua of Siknin said in the name of R. Levi: “Both of them took land and both of them took movable objects. What did they argue about? This one said ‘In my domain the Temple will be built,’ and that one said ‘In my domain the Temple will be built.’ “And it came to pass when they were in the field,” the only meaning of “field” is the Temple, [as it is written] “Zion shall be plowed as a field” (Micah 3:12). Because of this, “Cain rose up against his brother Abel…”
Genesis Rabbah, chap. 22:7
Kosman feels that although the first written evidence of this story is from a 19th c. non-Jewish source, this does not necessarily mean that the origins of this story are not in a Jewish story whose origins are much earlier.
Source: Admiel Kosman, “Sippur ha-Aggadah al Riv Bein Kein ve-Hevel ve-Sippur ha-be-Vuah Shelo al Shnei ha-Ahim ha-Ahuvim,” in Minha le-Menachem, pp. 443-452.