Couldn't the serpent also be interpreted as the bronze one lifted up in front of the people to heal them in the desert? I guess that story didn't end up well in the end either.
No sorry, snakes get no respect with Jews. Eternal enemies, God said that.
Hebrew Bile, Old testament :
יֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶל-הַנָּחָשׁ, כִּי עָשִׂיתָ זֹּאת, אָרוּר אַתָּה מִכָּל-הַבְּהֵמָה, וּמִכֹּל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה; עַל-גְּחֹנְךָ תֵלֵךְ, וְעָפָר תֹּאכַל כָּל-יְמֵי חַיֶּיךָ.
טו וְאֵיבָה אָשִׁית, בֵּינְךָ וּבֵין הָאִשָּׁה, וּבֵין זַרְעֲךָ, וּבֵין זַרְעָהּ: הוּא יְשׁוּפְךָ רֹאשׁ, וְאַתָּה תְּשׁוּפֶנּוּ עָקֵב.
KJB:
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou
art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
And, some words of biblical wisdom, if y'all must insist.
Among the many things the book of Genesis teaches us, we also learn about the eternal danger to Man- The Woman.
We learn that by using "new and tempting wisdom", the Woman may end up tempting the Man into his own demise.
Therefore, the Man should always and only - fear God's word, and never let the Woman derail him, if he will - he will
suffer the ultimate punishment, losing of his roaming ground - the garden of Eden.
As in many ages before, the "New Ideas" have been put into the Woman's mind first, "Love, Equality, Rights for this and that group" And then slowly trickled to the heads of the families. In a sneaky (or snakey) way.
The Men, who had bought into the "New Wisdom", will suffer the ultimate punishment. Losing of their own ground, their own Garden of Eden.
Well, I know we have some dimwitted commies here, so here's one from your mentor:
Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).
Karl Marx's reply to a set of questions given to him by his daughters Jenny and Laura in 1865