Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>]

<Dave>
...it's obvious >that this snake is no ordinary animal, there's something or
someone motivating its actions...

<Bill>
Further indication that it is an ordinary animal is the fact that snakes do,
in fact, currently slither rather than jaunt.

Subsequent texts that identify the deception with Satan do seem to require a
reading of Satan manipulating the snake, though then one must wonder why God
punished the snake.

Bill Ross