Tag: Serpent

• Original Sin goes into the Bin (i)

  With regard to the first 11 chapters of Genesis, I’m inclined to agree with Professor John J. Collins of Yale Divinity School, that “more than most stories, these chapters have been overlaid with theological interpretations that have little basis in the Hebrew text”. (*) This certainly applies, in my view, to the concept of “original […]

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  30th Mar 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Religion

  Adam & Eve, Augustine, Bishop Shelby Spong, Edmund Burke, Genesis, God, Original Sin, Pope Pius X, Serpent

• Garden, Snake and Tree

  Dating from more than 2,000 years before the final version of the Garden of Eden story, we have this seal from the Sumerian civilisation in what is now southern Iraq (the same part of the world from which the ancestors of Abraham, the ‘father’ of Israel, are said to have come from). Beginning from the […]

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  25th Mar 2022

  Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Carl Jung, Devil, Earth Mother, Garden of Eden, Genesis, Goddess, Mythology, Serpent

• Two things Genesis 2/3 doesn’t say …

  The 2nd section of Genesis runs from 2:4b to 3:24. The God who appears here is very different from the 1st section’s remote ‘voice’ which utters commands from afar and, after surveying the results from on high, expresses entire satisfaction with what has thus been achieved. The 2nd section’s God comes down into the thick […]

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  3rd May 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Devil, Genesis, God, Satan, Serpent, Woman