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The symbol of a serpent or snake played important roles in religious and cultural life of ancient EgyptCanaanMesopotamia and Greece. The serpent was a symbol of fertility. Throughout the Hebrew , it is also used in conjunction with to describe vicious serpents in the wilderness. The tannina dragon monster, also occurs throughout the . The story of the Garden of Eden and the fall of man represents a tradition among the Abrahamic peoples, with a presentation more or less symbolical of certain moral and religious truths. In one of the oldest stories ever written, the Epic of GilgameshGilgamesh loses the power of The Serpent Seastolen by a snake. Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a serpent eating The Serpent Sea own tail that represents the perpetual cyclic renewal of life, [3] the eternal returnand the cycle of life, death and rebirthleading to immortality. Archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan : two at Tel Megiddo[4] one at Gezer[5] one in the sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at Hazor[6] and two at Shechem. Serpent is also used to The Serpent Sea sea monsters. Examples of these identifications are in the Book of Isaiah where a reference is made to a serpent-like dragon named Leviathan Isaiahand in the Book of Amos where a serpent resides at the bottom of the sea Amos Serpent figuratively describes biblical places such as Egypt Jerand the city of Dan Gen The prophet Jeremiah also compares the King of Babylon to a serpent Jer In Genesisthe serpent is portrayed as a deceptive creature or tricksterwho promotes as good what God had forbidden and shows particular cunning in The Serpent Sea deception. There is no indication in the Book The Serpent Sea Genesis that the serpent was a deity in its own right, although it is one of only The Serpent Sea cases of animals that talk in the Pentateuch Balaam's donkey being the other. God placed Adam in the Garden to tend it and warned Adam not to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil"for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. The serpent replied that she would not surely die Genesis and that if she eats the fruit of the tree "then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. God, who was walking in The Serpent Sea Garden, finds out and to prevent Adam and Eve from eating the fruit of the Tree of Life and living forever, they are banished from The Serpent Sea Garden and God posts an angelic guard. The serpent is punished for its role in the fall by being a curse that God change the serpent into a snake to crawl on its belly and eat dust. There is a debate about whether the serpent in Eden should be viewed figuratively or as a literal animal. According to one midrashic interpretation in Rabbinic literaturethe serpent represents sexual desire ; [13] another interpretation is that the snake is the yetzer hara. No serpent, no animal of any kind, is called Satanor Belzebubor Devilin the Pentateuch. Oesterley were The Serpent Sea of the differences between the role of the Edenic serpent in the Hebrew Bible and its connections with the "ancient The Serpent Sea in the New Testament. According to Gerhard von RadOld Testament scholarLutheran theologian and University of Heidelberg professor, who applied form criticism as a supplement to the documentary The Serpent Sea of the Hebrew Bible, the snake in the Eden's narrative was more an expedient to represent the impulse to temptation of mankind that is, disobeying God's law rather than an evil spirit or the personification of the Devil, as the later Christian literature erroneously depicted it; moreover, von Rad himself states that the snake is neither a supernatural being nor a demon, but one of the wild animals created by God Genesisand the only thing that differentiates it from the others in Eden is the ability to The Serpent Sea. The serpent which now enters the narrative is marked as one of God's created animals ch. In the narrator 's mind, therefore, it is not the symbol The Serpent Sea a "demonic" power and certainly not of Satan. What distinguishes it a little from the rest of the animals is exclusively his greater cleverness. It is a question only of man and his guilt; therefore the narrator has carefully guarded against objectifying evil in any way, and therefore he has personified it as little as possible as a power coming from without. That he transferred the impulse to temptation outside man was almost more a necessity for the story than an attempt at making evil something existing outside man. But as The Serpent Sea lies now before us, transparent and lucid, it is anything but a myth. When God had revealed himself to the prophet Moses in Exodus —22Moses recognized that the call of God was for him to lead the people of Israel out of slaverybut anticipated that people would deny or doubt his calling. In Exodus —5Moses asked God The Serpent Sea to respond to such doubt, and God asked him to cast the rod which he carried possibly a shepherd's crook [19] onto the ground, whereupon it became a serpent a nachash. Moses fled from it, but God encouraged him to come back and take it by the tail, and it became a The Serpent Sea again. Later in the Book of Exodus Exodus 7the staffs of Moses and Aaron were turned into serpents, a nachash for Moses, a tanniyn for Aaron. According to Wilhelm Geseniussaraph corresponds to the Sanskrit Sarpa Jawl aqraserpent; sarpinreptile from the root srip, serpere. The Hebrew word for "poisonous" literally means "fiery", "flaming" or "burning", as the burning sensation of a snake bite on human skin, a metaphor for the fiery anger of God Numbers The Book of Isaiah expounds on the description of these fiery serpents as "flying saraphs" YLTor "flying ", [20] in the land of trouble and anguish Isaiah Isaiah indicates that these saraphs are comparable to vipersYLT worse than ordinary The Serpent Sea Isaiah In the Book of Numberswhile Moses The Serpent Sea in the wilderness, he mounted a serpent of bronze on a pole that functioned as a cure against the bite of the "seraphim", the "burning ones" Numbers —9. Mainstream scholars suggest that the image of the fiery serpent served to function like that of a magical amulet. Magic amulets or charms were used in the ancient Near East [25] to practice a healing ritual known as sympathetic magic The Serpent Sea an attempt to ward off, heal or reduce the impact of illness and poisons. Confession of sin and forgiveness was both a community and an individual responsibility. The plague of serpents remained an ongoing threat to the community and the raised bronze serpent was an ongoing reminder to each individual for the need to turn to the healing power of God. In 2 Kingsa bronze serpent, alleged to be the one Moses made, was kept in The Serpent Sea Temple [24] sanctuary. Hezekiah referred to it as Nehushtan [28] and had torn it down. Scholars have debated the nature of the relationship between The Serpent Sea Mosaic bronze serpent and Hezekiah's Nehushtan, but traditions happen to link the two. Jesus also uses this imagery, observing: "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna? Alternatively, Jesus also presents the snake with a less negative connotation when sending out the Twelve Apostles. Jesus exhorted them, "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpentsThe Serpent Sea harmless as doves" Matthew Wilhelm Gesenius notes that even amongst the ancient Hebrews, the serpent was a symbol of wisdom. In the Gospel of JohnJesus made mention of the Mosaic serpent when he foretold his crucifixion to a Jewish teacher. Snake handling is a religious ritual in a small number of Christian churches in the US, usually characterized as rural and Pentecostal. Practitioners believe it dates to antiquity and quote the Bible The Serpent Sea support The Serpent Sea practice, using references such as Mark and Luke In the temptation of Christthe Devil cites Psalm —12"for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. The serpent in Psalm is identified as Satan by Christians: [36] " super aspidem et basiliscum calcabis conculcabis leonem et draconem " in the Latin Vulgateliterally "The asp and the basilisk you will trample under foot; you will tread on the lion and the dragon ". This passage is commonly interpreted by Christians as a reference to Christ defeating and triumphing over Satan. The passage led to the Late Antique and Early Medieval iconography The Serpent Sea Christ treading on the beastsin which two beasts are often shown, usually the lion and snake or dragon, and sometimes four, which are normally the lion, dragon, asp snake and basilisk which was depicted with varying characteristics of the Vulgate. All represented the devil, as explained by Cassiodorus and Bede in their commentaries on Psalm The crucifixion was regarded as the fulfillment of God's curse on the serpent in Genesis Sometimes it is pierced by the cross and in one ivory is biting Christ's heel, as in the curse. The serpent battles Michael the Archangel in a War in Heaven which results in this devil being cast out to the earth. While on earth, he pursues the Woman of the Apocalypse. Unable to obtain her, he wages war with the rest of her seed Revelation He who has the key to the abyss and a great chain over his hand, binds the serpent for a thousand years. The serpent is then cast into the abyss and sealed within until he is released Revelation In Christian tradition, the "ancient serpent" is commonly identified with the Genesis serpent and as Satan. The first deuterocanonical source to connect the serpent with the devil may be Wisdom of Solomon. Following the imagery of chapter 12 of the Book of RevelationBernard of Clairvaux had called Mary the "conqueror The Serpent Sea dragons", and she was long to be shown crushing a snake underfoot, also a reference to her title as the "New Eve". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Serpent Bible. It is not to be confused with Velikiy Dragon. Serpents in ancient mythology. Canons and books. Tanakh Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim. Christian biblical canons. Deuterocanon Antilegomena. Authorship and development. Authorship Dating Hebrew canon. Pauline epistles Petrine epistles. Translations and manuscripts. Biblical The Serpent Sea. Hermeneutics Pesher Midrash Pardes. Allegorical interpretation Historical- grammatical method Literalism. Gnostic Islamic Quranic. Inerrancy Infallibility. See also: Snakes in mythology and Serpent symbolism. See also: Genesis creation narrative and Jewish mythology. Further information: Fiery flying serpent and Seraph. Further information: Nehushtan. Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved — via newadvent. Archived The Serpent Sea the The Serpent Sea on Retrieved Macalister, Gezer IIp. King, A History of Babylonp. Speiser, Excavations at Tepe Gawra: I. With the further development of Satan as the arch-fiend and head of the powers of darkness we are not concerned here, as this is outside the scope of the . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wray, Gregory New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Serpents in the Bible - Wikipedia

Sea serpentmythological and legendary marine animal that traditionally resembles an enormous snake. The belief in huge creatures that inhabited the deep was widespread throughout the ancient world. In the Old Testament there are several allusions to a primordial combat between God and a monstrous adversary variously named Leviathan or Rahab. Although the references to Leviathan usually indicate a dragon-like creature, the name has also been used to denote a sea monster in general see dragon. Analogies The Serpent Sea this combat are found throughout the ancient Middle East. Babylonian literature records a battle between the god Marduk and the multi-headed serpent-dragon Tiamat, and in Hittite myth the weather god is victorious over the dragon Illuyankas. Similarly, a Canaanite poem from Ras Shamra ancient Ugarit in northern Syria records a battle between the god Baal and a monster called Leviathan. Although tales of sea serpents have continued to exist throughout the centuries, no animal has been captured so far that has not proved to belong to a previously well-known group. A large number of the well-authenticated stories of monstrous marine creatures seem to be explicable as incorrect observations of animals already well known. For example, a number of porpoises swimming one behind the other and rising regularly to take air might produce the appearance of a very large serpentlike creature progressing by a series of vertical undulations. Large masses of seaweed half awash often have been mistaken for some gigantic animal. Basking sharks, nemertines marine wormsribbonfish or oarfish Regalecusand sea lions have also been suggested as explanations of some so-called sea serpents. Giant squids Architeuthis species are presumably the foundation on which many accounts are based; these animals, which may attain a total length of 50 feet 15 metresoccasionally frequent the regions from which many accounts of sea serpents have come—Scandinavia, Denmark, the British Isles The Serpent Sea, and the eastern coasts of North America. One The Serpent Sea these animals swimming at the surface with two enormously elongate arms trailing along through the water would produce almost exactly the picture that many of the strangely consistent independent accounts require: a general cylindrical shape with a flattened head, appendages on the head and neck, a dark colour on top The Serpent Sea a lighter shade beneath, progression steady and uniform, body straight but capable of being bent, and spouting water. Further, sperm whales are known to The Serpent Sea and devour Architeuthis, and one of the most graphic accounts of the sea serpents speaks of it as in conflict with a whale around which it had thrown two coils and which it ultimately dragged below the surface. They The Serpent Sea been the object of much investigation, all of it remaining inconclusive. Sea serpent Article Additional Info. Print Cite. Facebook Twitter. Give Feedback External Websites. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article requires login. External Websites. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree See Article History. Get exclusive access to content from our First Edition with your subscription. Subscribe today. Learn More in these related Britannica The Serpent Sea. Dragonlegendary monster usually conceived as a The Serpent Sea, bat-winged, fire-breathing, scaly lizard or snake with a barbed tail. The belief in these creatures apparently arose without the slightest knowledge on the part of the ancients of the gigantic, prehistoric, dragon-like reptiles. Leviathanin Jewish mythology, a primordial sea serpent. Its source is in prebiblical Mesopotamian myth, especially that of the sea monster in the Ugaritic myth of Baal see Yamm. In the Old Testament, Leviathan appears in Psalms as a multiheaded sea serpent that is killed by God…. Squidany of more than species of armed cephalopods classified within the order Teuthoidea or Teuthida and found in both coastal and oceanic waters. Squids may be swift swimmers or part of the drifting sea life plankton. Squids have elongated tubular bodies and short…. History The Serpent Sea your fingertips. Sign up The Serpent Sea to see what happened On The Serpent Sea Dayevery day in your inbox! Email address. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.