I9II.] AGAINST THE CURSE ON EVE. 511 



^^ See my paper on ^lidian and Sinai in the Zcitschrift dcr 

 Deutschen Morgenldndischcn GcseUschaft, vol. Ixiii., p. 519, 1. 25. 



^- Compare above, note 5. 



^" The serpent symbohzes carnal desire, sexual appetite, con- 

 cupiscence. This is the original sin which has been transmitted to 

 all descendants of Adam ; only the innocents are free from it. 

 Coleridge {Aids to Reflexion, 1825) held that Adam's fall was a 

 typical experience repeated afresh in every son of Adam. Mutato 

 iwiitiiie. de te fabiila Harra/ar; see Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. 

 vol. i., p. 842". In the well known Assyrian relief from Nimriid, 

 representing the fight with the dragon, the penis of the monster is 

 a serpent; see the plate in Geo. Smith, The Chaldean Account of 

 Genesis, edited by Sayce (London, 1880). The serpent in the story 

 of the Fall of Man is a later addition ; in the original form of the 

 legend Eve was the sole seductress; Eve means serpent (Heb. 

 Hazvzi'dh^ Aram, hiz^'ya, snake. Arab, hdyyah). See n. 29 to my 

 paper cited above, n. i. 



^*This legend explains the institution of tattooed tribal marks 

 and the institution of blood-revenge (cf. nn. 15 and 17). It illus- 

 trates also the superiority of nomadic animal sacrifices compared 

 with agricultural bloodless offerings (cf. n. 26). 



^■' Kenite means descendant of Kain or Cain; Cain is the eponym 

 ancestor of the Kenites. 



^° See Genesis, iv., 15; cf. Haupt, The Book of Canticles, p. 41 ; 

 Biblischc Liebeslieder, p. 61. 



^' Cf. our Uncle Sam. John Bull, Columbia, Germania, &c. A 

 Bedouin tribe Cain (Qain) dwelt in the desert of Sinai and the 

 neighboring districts about six centuries after Christ ; see Xoldeke's 

 article on Amalek in the Eucyclopccdia Biblica, col. 130. 



^^See Genesis, iv., 23, 24; cf. my paper on Closes' Song of 

 Triumph in the American Journal of Semitic Languages, vol. xx., 

 p. 164. 



^^Cf. I Samuel, xxvii., 10. The Kenites lived with the Amale- 

 kites, but they were on friendly terms with the men of Judah, 

 whereas the Amalekites were perpetually at feud with the Judahites, 

 cf. I Samuel, xv., 6 and Judges, i., 16 (see below, n. 21). In the 



