(December 30, 2011 at 11:40 am)chipan Wrote: you look way too hard at this, not everything is symbolic in the bible. here's some things- God said not to eat from the tree at all, not to wait till the proper moment. the snake represents a deciever, which is how calling someone a snake originated. eve got pregnant too early? adam had his first son at the age of 130. his name was Seth. i don't understand if your asking a question or just saying what's on your mind
Besides internal evidence, we have an allegory from the wisdom traditon in Qohelth 12:1ff. There is also Dame Wisdom and Madam Folly in Prov 1:-9. I would urge that I am properly defining the literary genre of the story.
