Less well known is the fact that the serpent is equated in 1 Enoch 69:6 with Gader’el, one of the wicked angels who descended from heaven to have sex with women on the earth (elaborating the story in Gen 6:1-4). We may compare Rev 12:9, 20:2, where we read of “that ancient serpent, who is the Devil and Satan”. in 1 Chron 21:1 ), and we find him first equated with the Eden serpent in the apocryphal book of Wisdom (Wis 2:24, “but through the Devil’s envy death entered the world” ). The concept of Satan developed only later (first attested as a personal name c. More generally it also discusses other questions of interpretation that have arisen in connection with the serpent in Genesis 3, in particular the suggestion that the serpent should be viewed more positively than has been customary and questions associated with the so-called Protoevangelium in Genesis 3:15.Īdapted and expanded from: John Day, From Creation to Babel: Studies in Genesis 1-11 (LHBOTS 592 London/New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2013), 35-37.Įmeritus Professor of Old Testament Studiesįor Adam and Eve the serpent in the Garden of Eden represented the voice of temptation but it needs to be noted that for the original writer, the Yahwist (or J) source, the serpent was not equated with Satan (the Devil). This brief article critiques a number of the proposals that have been made and suggests a possible background for the serpent. However, modern scholars agree that this was a later identification and not the original meaning, but there is no consensus as to what the original background of the serpent was. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The serpent in the Garden of Eden is popularly equated with the Devil.
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