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NEHUSHTAN: SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUGS
Author(s) -
GOIHMANYAHR MAURICIO
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1993.tb02763.x
Subject(s) - ambivalence , medicine , serpent (symbolism) , garden of eden , adam and eve , traditional medicine , ancient history , literature , art history , psychoanalysis , history , art , psychology
The role of the snake is ambivalent in the Bible. The primeval serpent was instrumental in the exile of Adam and Eve from Eden, but It did not really lie. The fruit of the tree did provide knowledge of good and evil and humankind has been blessed (cursed?) with that knowledge ever since (Gen 3:1–24).