34408 Y89 Most of us automatically see animals as


ESSENTIALLY
DIFFERENT ÀND
ÌNFÉRIOR. THIS IS
BECAUSE EVEN OUR MOST
ANCIENT TRADITIONS WERE CREATED
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AFTER THE END
OF THE HUNTER-GATHERER ERA. THE OLD TESTAMENT,
FOR EXAMPLE, WAS WRITTEN DOWN IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BC,
AND ITS OLDEST STORIES REFLECT THE REALITIES
OF THE OF THE 2nd millennium BC.......

But in the Middle East
the age of hunter-gatherers ended more than 7,000 years earlier: it is
surprising, therefore, that the Bible rejects animistic beliefs and its only animistic story appears
right at the beginning, as a dire warning?! The Bible is a long book, bursting with many miracles,
wonders & marvels!? Yet the only time an animal initiates a conversation with a human is when
'the Serpent tempts EVE to eat the forbidden fruit of knowledge' (Bil'am's Donkey also speaks a
few words, but she is merely conveying to Bil'am
a 'message from God'knipoog.

In the Garden of Eden,
Adam & Eve lived as foragers.
The expulsion from Eden bears a striking resemblance to the Agri-
cultural Revolution. Instead of allowing Adam to keep gathering wild fruits, an angry God con-
demns him 'to eat bread by the sweat of your brow'! It might be no coincidence, then, that bibli-
cal animals spoke with humans only in the pre-agricultural era of Eden? What lessons does the
Bible draw from the episode? THAT YOU SHOULN'T LISTEN TO SNAKES, AND IT
IS GENERALLY BÈST TO AVOID TALKING WITH ANIMALS AND PLANTS!

Because it leads to nothing but disaster. Yet the
biblical story has deeper
and more ancient
layers of
meaning
.........
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