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Consecrated Venom: The Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge

Arguments about the Bible often dispute whether its account is pure myth or divine revelation. In a stimulating departure from the normal debate, Caryl Johnston interprets the biblical events as figures or motifs of human knowledge, a way of seeing the Bible which is both novel and revealing.

The author starts from the dual significance of the serpent, as tempter and as symbol of wisdom and inspiration. Human awareness changed from the moment that Adam and Eve were tempted by the serpent and tasted the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. By that act, they became aware of themselves as thinking beings. The venom of the serpent was to engage humans in the historical process itself, to make them active in the world through paying attention to their own thought.

However, the Bible also reveals to us the serpent of Moses, that he ‘lifted up’ to rescue his people. Through thinking we are bound into creation by responsibility and moral presence, and by engaging with history we confront the greatest lessons that humanity has to learn.

With striking and fresh insight on every page, Consecrated Venom explores the very nature of human awareness as imaged in the Bible stories of the Garden of Paradise, Cain and Abel, Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac, as well as the historical reality of humanity’s Covenant with God.

About the Author

Caryl Johnston was born in 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama. She is the author of Instead of eyes (1979), poems on Biblical themes, and The Thoroughbred Colt: Identity and Moral Will in a Southern Family (1999), a study of the impact of slavery, civil rights, and religion on one Southern family over five generations. Ms. Johnston works as an editorial assistant at the University of Alabama.

Additional information

Weight 18 oz
Dimensions 6 × 0.5 × 9 in
Author

ISBN13

9780863153099

Published

May 2000

Format

Hardbound

Pages

160

Publisher

Floris Books

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