RE: Genesis interpretations - how many are there?
July 10, 2018 at 11:23 am
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2018 at 11:26 am by Drich.)
(July 10, 2018 at 10:34 am)Khemikal Wrote: A truth known only to you, maybe...lol. Imma stick with the jews when it comes to their book and how to read it.
Their interpretation has the benefit of not being the dumbest thing I;ve ever heard.
The jews who know how to read this book are no longer called Jews.
The ones who read it now are the direct descendants of those who were once called pharisees. as the descendants of the pharisees were the only group left after jesus and later more specifically the destruction of the temple.
(Jesus took a large group, and a larger group was murdered by the romans (the remain sadducees) of those who remained either converted to Christianity because of what Jesus said about the temple or the followed the only jewish teaching available (which was the minority/radical version of judaism) at the time.. which again Jesus Himself did not ..'approve of.'
So then why would 2000 years of degradation of the oral traditions that Jesus did not like make the reading now better?
In truth it is better for you because the subject remains contradictory and muddled.. yeah better to keep you head burried in the ground than look at the bible in a way it makes sense with the world around us, otherwise you might have to change things or be accused of having a closed mind.
(July 10, 2018 at 10:38 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:read them there are not two different narratives of the same event but two narratives of two different events. one the 7 day creation and 2 the creation of the garden and everything in it. That is why both were included. it tells of two different things!(July 10, 2018 at 10:15 am)Khemikal Wrote: There;s only one that matters...the rabbinic interpretation. The people who came up with the story never thought it was literal in the first place.
It was intended as religious metaphor, poetry, not a news report from the front of theologically unimportant details. On it;s own merits it succeeds at that. Why Some Christians feel the need to rob magic book is beyond me.
Drich, for example..up there twisting his scrote trying to reconcile contradictory narratives. The compilers didn;t give a shit. They knew that the narratives were mismatched but it just wasn;t important to them because they didn;t need it to be true in the way that a bathsit creationist does.
There's internal evidence that the two narratives came from different traditions. The question then becomes, why did the redactors feel it necessary to include both versions. I guess we'll never really know, but if one hews to the notion that the narratives were composited in the seventh century BCE, then there are potential political reasons for the specific inclusions.
(July 10, 2018 at 10:45 am)robvalue Wrote: They kind of paint themselves into a corner, being unable to remove stuff without the whole house of cards falling down. Instead they have to pretend things like the second story actually make sense.
or if you simply read what is on page with out the lens of tradition obscuring everything, it strengthen the whole creation narrative to where it encapsulates anything you wish to pair with it.