I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. We have all heard the story that follows: the hero fights a dragon, and just as it appears the dragon will prevail, the hero saves the day.

Best-selling novels and blockbuster films are full of that plot, and Andrew David Naselli argues it is the main theme of the Bible itself. Tracing serpents and dragons from Genesis to Revelation, he shows how the whole story turns on one seed of the woman crushing the head of the serpent. Part of the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series.