Note 596 — Chapter VI · THE MYTH OF CIVILISATION AND THE FIRST SHAPING OF HEBREW RELIGION.
R. (Russell) Martineau translation
Accordingly this appellation belongs to the same category as those which are noticed above, p. 175. In genealogical notes elsewhere also the Serpent occurs as ancestor; I need only mention the case which stands nearest to our subject in prehistoric Arabia—that of al-Afʿa b. al-Afʿa, ‘the Viper,’ head of a branch of the people of Jurhum, Ibn ʿAbdûn, p. 71 et seq.