What was the name of the serpent in the tree that told eve to eat the apple?

Answer 1

The Bible does not give the snake a name. The snake was a common motif in ancient religions right around the ancient Near East. We can regard it as a a remnant of even more ancient animist beliefs or we can adopt the more recent Christian approach of believing that the snake was Satan, who would have made his task more difficult by pretending to be a snake.

Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis), says that we can learn most from the story by regarding it as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we were tricked out of.

Answer 2

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If we think of the story of the Garden of Eden as an allegory, we can make the serpent represent whatever we want. Many suggest Satan. Or we can regard the story as literally true, in which case the serpent was real and should not represent anything. Or, in the words of Leon R. Kass (The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis), we can learn most from the story by regarding it as a mythical yet realistic portrait of permanent truths about our humanity, rather than as a historical yet idealised portrait of a blissful existence we once enjoyed but lost. The story was not about the snake, which was merely a motif commonly used in ancient Near Eastern mythology, but about man's longing for immortality.

Answer 3

The book of Genesis gave no name to the sinister serpent. God called the snake 'cursed', in Genesis 3:14, for having tempted Adam and Eve. Otherwise the serpent only had the name that Adam gave when God created wildlife and Adam chose each creature's name, in Genesis 2:19.

Answer 4

Python is the name of the serpent that god Apollo killed with his arrows and bow.

Answer 5

Satan