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[Bucky Ball]

I would have to respectfully disagree with that as the origins of the serpent in Genesis. Most of the imported things came from the Babylonian myth system. There is a myth of Gilgamesh and the Serpent, which fits perfectly with the rest on the imported material.
(Sorry this is so long).
There was a precedent for a snake (and plant) that conferred immortality.
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...ins?page=2

I'm sticking with the Egyptian Pharaoh as the talking snake because Egypt was always an adversary of the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians. All three empires controlled Egypt at various times and the Israelites/Hebrews/Jews were always claiming that Egypt was the bad guy. Plus, as I pointed out, the Egyptian Pharaoh's headdress had a snake on it.

You can do/say whatever you like. There were images of snakes all over the known world. The fact than any one culture has a snake image somewhere does not mean it got imported into Hebrew literature. We KNOW they used Gilgamesh for their flood myth, and other stories. There is no Egyptian myth about a snake involved in grating or taking away, eternal life. Scholars know that the Hebrews imported Babylonian themes from their literature when they wrote the Bible during the exile in Babylon.
There are imported Egyptian myth themes, in the Bible, but not about talking snakes.