The Good and Evil Serpent (196 page)

Rahabn

Rainbow Serpent

Ramallah

Rameses I II

Ramleh

Ras Shamra
(see also
Ugarit)

Re

Red Dragon: in the Book of Revelation; in British legend Remus

Rhine

Rhodes

Rilke, Rainer Marian

Roch, St.

Rome

Romulus Rousseau, Jean-Jacquesn Russia Rustam

Sabazius

Sadducees

Saladin

Salus Samael Samaria

Sanchuniathonn.
See also
Philo of Byblos

Sappho

sarcophagusn

Sargon II

Satan

Saturn.
See also
Chronos

Satyrs

Savior

Scylla Scythia Scythopolis

Sea of Galilee
(also
Kinneret Yam)

Second Temple Judaism Secundus of Pentapolis Sefire inscription Sefunim

Selene
(also
Luna) Semites Sennacherib Septem

Septuagint

Seraphim

Serapis
(also
Sarapis)n serpents and snakes

—artifacts/material culture and serpent/ snake iconography: architecture; bowls; braceletsnn; bronze serpents (
see also
bracelets; clasps; pendants; rings in this entry)n; cauldrons; claspsn; “cultic” objects; cult object in the Temple of Jerusalem; cups; glass; jugs and pitchers; ladle; lamps; paintingsn; pendants; rings

sculpture and statues

serpents and snakes—artifacts/material culture and serpent/snake iconography; staffs
(see also
caduceus); vases—biblical terminology relating to snakes

—varieties and species of snakes: adder; Asian Netpython; asp; Balkan Whip snake; Bibron’s Blind snaken; Black African cobra; Black indigo snake; black mamba; Boomslang; cobra; copperhead; coral snake; desert cobra; Diamondback Rattlesnake; Dice Snake; Egyptian cobra
(also naja haje)
; garden snake; Green Mamba; Horn-viper; Leopard Snake; Mossambic cobra; puff adder; python; rattlesnake; spitting cobra; Yellow Blunt-headed Vinesnaken

Seth Seti I

Sha’ar Hagolan
Shahnameh
(Persian
Book of Kings)

Shakespeare, Williamn

Sharon Plain

Shechem (Tell Balatah)

Sheol

Shesha
(also
Sesa, snake form of Indian god Vishnu)

Shiloh Shimon ben Shetach Shiqmona Shivan

Sidon

Sigmund (Norse hero)

Signs Source (source for Gospel of John)

Silenoi

Sirach

Sirona (Celtic goddess)

Sisiul (Native American mythic serpent)

Skhul

Smyrna

Socrates Solomon

Somnus

Son of Man, Jesus as

Sophia of the Epinoia (Gnostic figure) Sorek Valley Souriel (angel)

South America Spain

Sparta
Spartoi
(Sown Men)

Sphinx

Stheno (sister of Medusa)

Spinoza, Baruch

St. Anne’s Church (Jerusalem)

Stoicism

St. Petersburg

Strabo

Strymon

Stuck, Franz von Suetonius Sumer

Sun

Susan

Susanoh (Japanese deity)

Sussita

Sychar

Synoptic Gospels

Syria

Taautos.
See also
Philo of Byblos

Tabun

Talthybios

Talyessin
(also
Taliesin)

Tammuzn

Tanganyika

Tannin and Tanninim

Tartarus

Tauroctony.
See also
Mithra Tel el-Ajjul Tel el-Hosn

Tel el-Qedah

Telephos (son of Herakles) Telesphoros (son of Asclepius) Tel es-Sultan

Tell Balatah Tell Brakn

Tell Beer-sheba

Tell Beit Mirsim Tell el-Qadi

Tell es-Safi

Tello Tellus Tel Matash Tel Mevorak Tel Miqne

Tel Sandahanna

Temple of Chon (at Karnak)

Temple of Jerusalemn

Ten Commandments Tenedos

Tertullian Tetragrammatonn Thebes Theodosian Code Theseus Thessaly

Thetis Thor

Thraetaona (Iranian culture hero)

Tiâmat

Tiber

Tiberias

Tiberius

Tiglath pileser I

Tiglath-pileser III Tillich, Pauln

Tintoretto Tisiphone (one of the Furies) Titans Titeos Tonacatocoatl Tongeren, Belgium Torah

Trajann

Triptolemus.
See also
Eleusinian cult

Tritonia (epithet of Minerva) Trojans and Trojan War.
See
Laocoon Turin Turkestan

Turkey.
See also
Anatolia Tutankhamen

Tyndale, William

Typhon

Ugarit

Ulm

Urna (consort of Shiva)

uraeus

Valerius Gratus

Valéry, Paul

Valley Gate (Jerusalem)

Varro

Venice Vespucci, Simonetta

Vesta

Vesuvius Vima (Iranian culture hero) Virgil

Vishnu

Vix (in Châtillon-sur-Seine) votives and votive offerings

Vulcan

Wadi ed-Daliyeh

White Dragon of the Saxons

William Crafts

Wisdom

Wycliffe, John

Xenophon

Yahwist

Yaltabaoth

Yarmuk

Zea Island

Zebedee (father of John)

Zeus
(also
Jupiter, Jove); Zeus Asclepius; Zeus Heliopolitanusn; Zeus Meilichios; Zeus Milik

Zion

Zohelet Stone
(also
Serpent Stone)

Zoroaster
(also
Zarathustra)

Zoroastrianism

Zulus

Zurvan

Index of Modern Authors

Abadie, M. J.

Abbott, K. M.

Abel, F.-M.

Aharoni, Y.

Ahituv, S.

Ahlström, G. W.

Aland, B.

Aland, K.

Albertoni, M.

Albright, W. F.

Alexander, G.

Alexiou, S., Altmann, A.

Amaducci, A. B.

Amar, Z.

Amélineau, E.

Amiet, E.

Anderson, A. A.

Anderson, B. W., Anderson, H.

Anderson, P. N.

Andreae, B.

Angier, N.

Angus, S.

Antonova, Ye. V.

Arav, R.

Armstrong, J.

Arndt, W. F.

Asgari, N.

Ashley, T. R.

Ashton, J.

Asirvatham, S. R.

Astius, F.

Asurmendi, J.

Athanassakis, A. N.

Attridge, H. W.

Aufrecht, W. E.

Augé, C.

Aune, D. E.

Aupert, P.

Ausloos, H.

Avalon, A. (Sir John Woodroffe)

Avalos, H.

Avi-Yonah, M.,

Azarpay, G.

Baentsch, B.

Baeumler, A.

Bagley, R. W.

Baguley, E. C.

Bahat, A.

Bahat, D.

Bahlule, Hassano bar

Bailey, C.

Bailey, J.

Bailly, M. A.

Baines, W.

Balanchine, G.

Baldini, U.

Ball, W.

Baltzer, K.

Bandini, P.

Banti, L.

Barash, A.

Barnett, R. D.

Barreto, J.

Bar-Yosef, O.

Bastien, P. C. V.

Battaglia, G.

Battaglia, S.

Batto, B. F.

Bauchhenss, G.

Bauchot, R.

Baudelaire, C.

Baudissin, W. W. G.

Bauer, H.

Bauer, W.

Baumgarten, A. I.

Baumgarten, J. M.

Baumgartner, W.

Bayet, J.

Bayley, H.

Beard, M.

Beasley-Murray, G. R.

Becker, C.

Beckman, G.

Behr, C. A.

Beirne, M. M.

Beit-Arié, M.

Béjart, A.

Béjart, M.

Bellamy, J.

Bellesort, M. N.

Bellinger, G. J.

Bellotta, I. Belting-Ihm, Ch.

Ben Arieh, S.

Ben-Hayyim, Z.

Ben-Tor, A.

Bentzen, A.

Berger, K.

Berghe, L. vanden

Bergoffen, C. J.

Berlejung, A.

Bernabo, M.

Bernard, J. H.

Bernhard, M.

Bernhard, O.

Betz, H. F. D.

Betz, O.

Beyerlin, W.

Bialik, H. N.

Bianchi, R. S.

Bianchi, U.

Biedermann, H.

Biel, J.

Bieringer, R.

Biran, A.

Bittel, K. Black, C. C.

Black, J.

Black, M.

Blenkinsopp, J.

Blomberg, C. L.

Bliss, F. J.

Boardman, J.

Boccaccini, G.

Bodenheimer, F. S.

Bodson, L.

Boelsche, W.

Boer, M. B. de

Boer, W. den

Böhl, F. M. Th.

Böhme-Schönberger, A.

Boismard, M. E.

Boltin, L.

Bonfante-Warren, A.

Bonfil, R.

Bonhoeffer, D.

Bonn, A. G.

Bordenacher, G.

Borgen, P.

Boring, M. E.

Borowski, E.

Borsje, J.

Bortolot, B. J.

Bossert, H. Th.

Botting, D.

Boucharlat, R.

Bouché-Leclercq, A.

Boulnois, J.

Bourbon, F.

Bowman, A. K.

Boyce, G. K.

Brady, T. A.