Thats wrong, the Greeks actually preceeded the Bible. Long before the bible was compiled, Greeks were already practising this medicine.
The imagery was also borrowed by the Greeks from the Egyptian healing God Heka, just like many Greek gods.
There are actually lists showing which African gods the Greeks ‘borrowed’.
Totally illogical? Never heard of homeopathy? Besides the serpent is an umbivalent symbol that can represent both good and evil in the ancient world.
The Greeks are a recent (though very important) cultural-political power/influence even by biblical standard witness. They arrive with Alexander of Macedon just before the Romans [and after the Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Hitittes, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians]. The text we call ‘Numbers’ is a associated with Moses who in turn is associated with the Egyptians with an even more ancient and influential classical mythological tradition than the Greeks. Be that as it may… the Serpent is one of oldest or most primitive mythological symbols of human culture. It is therefore futile to make the attempt to restrict it to any specific cultural matrix… it would be more prudent to recognize serpent mythological symbolism as integral part of the mutual cross cultural influences that constitute the spirit or ethos of Ancient Near Eastern Traditional religiosity in which the ‘Greeks’ participate.
No, Greco-Roman civilization came much later. Remember, Paul took the gospel of Christ from Jerusalem into Macedonia, sparking a modern renaissance never seen before in terms of language, architecture, medicine etc.
Kindly unpack this your intriguing statement/submission … How can ‘a modern Renaissance’ exist in antiquity? Be that as it may… can you be specific on how it revitalized language, architecture, and medicine in the 1st century CE for instance?