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The Serpent of Eden: A Philological and Critical Essay on the Text of Genesis III, and Its Various Interpretations is unavailable, but you can change that!

To Jews and Christians alike, the narrative of the temptation and fall of man is an article of faith. It’s the very foundation of the edifice of faith; the very groundwork of the whole scheme of redemption. It is an article of faith that Eve was tempted by “the Serpent” and fell—that she, in turn, tempted Adam, who also fell—and that Adam, Eve, and this “Serpent” were subjected each to a special...

and man himself; and possibly also some angels who minister on earth. God alone seems to be excluded from this comparison, as the Creator of all; for the comparison is urged in the fullest and widest sense, asserting that this “Serpent was the most intelligent among all living beings on the earth which the Lord God has made.” That this important extension of the comparison is correct, is confirmed by the wording of ver. 13 in this same chapter. Here the serpent is declared accursed “above all beasts” (בְהֶמָה,
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