To: dwashbur AT nyx.net, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: The identity of the serpent
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 05:47:21 EDT
In a message dated 8/30/2000 1:22:30 PM Central Standard Time,
dwashbur AT nyx.net writes:
<< Okay, which other of the "ordinary creatures" has the capability of
speech, knows what God has commanded the man and questions
it, lies to the people and all the rest? >>
If I remember correctly, in Greek this is know as a fable -- as in Aesop's. .
.
A fable within a myth -- curiouser and curiouser.
gfsomsel
Re: The identity of the serpent,
Polycarp66, 09/01/2000