What Does Nakedness Have To Do With Shrewdness?
In Biblical Hebrew, the word arum means both naked and shrewd.
Genesis 2 and 3 play on this double meaning: the snake is described as the shrewdest animal in the animal kingdom (3:1), while man and woman are described as naked (2:25, 3:10-3:11). The same word is used in both cases.
What theories do you have as to why nakedness and shrewdness are linked …
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