Naked Bible 103: Moses and the Bronze Serpent
The Naked Bible Podcast
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The Interaction of Prayer With Magic
The incident of the bronze serpent is an excellent example of the interaction of prayer with, with magical praxis. The many attempts to explain away the account on the grounds that if taken at face value, it would conflict with biblical monotheism reflect a basic misunderstanding of ancient Near Eastern magical phenomenology as known to us from comparative sources.
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