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The student's serpent allusion Jiang endorses is that the thieves' transformation repeats the original serpent's robbery of Adam and Eve's paradise.
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Adam and Eve
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Jiang explains Satan's rebellion as prideful imitation of God, explicitly linking it to Adam and Eve's desire to become like God.
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Adam and Eve fall because ego cannot properly receive generosity; they are embarrassed by God's gift and read love through selfish suspicion.
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Jiang compares the transition from oral tradition to literary culture to Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge: knowledge brings shame, nakedness, and exile from a prior garden.
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Jiang reads Augustine's Adam and Eve as saying they were not tricked by the serpent and not simply curious; they were already evil because their pride made them want to become God.
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Because the Bible was redacted for millennia, Jiang says much of the Yahwist's original writing is lost, but he will analyze Adam and Eve and Jacob and Rachel as stories he treats as hers.
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Jiang rejects the mainstream story that Adam and Eve's disobedience is simply original sin dooming humanity until Jesus.
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In Jiang's reading, Yahweh does not banish Adam and Eve merely because they disobey; he fears they will become like God if knowledge of good and evil is joined to the tree of life.
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"...god and the serpent was the one who basically robbed adam and eve of paradise right so basically that's like the allusion to that"
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"exactly you're exactly right yes um um and in fact milton will use this metamorphosis for paradise laws because in paradise laws uh the..."
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"...he wanted to be like god just as like how adam and eve ate the food in order to be like god and um..."
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"...nice to me? Okay? It scares you. And that's why Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Because they were embarrassed by the generosity of God...."
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"...tradition to literary culture is really like the story of Adam and Eve. Where because they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge..."
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"And because of this they are thrown out of the Garden of Eden. with that metaphor. Okay? Oral tradition we leave it behind and..."
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"happen why did Adam and Eve go to heaven and why did they go to hell and why did they go to and Eve..."
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"that's important to understand they were not tricked by the serpent they were not curious they were just evil for pride is the start..."
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"...we know for sure she wrote. The first is called Adam and Eve. The second is the story of Jacob and Rachel. Okay? Alright...."
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"God told Adam and Eve listen, this is the Garden of Eden. It's paradise. You can do whatever you want. Life is easy. Apples..."
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"...we can interpret the story. Okay. So God says to Adam and Eve don't eat that fruit. Okay? And then Adam and Eve are..."
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"And when Yahweh commands them to come out and he sees right away they're embarrassed about their nakedness. They're embarrassed about being confronted by..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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