(March 25, 2021 at 8:07 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: I would say that it is a guarantee that most believers believed what the tanakh told them (***), starting from Genesis and onwards.
Unless, like St. Augustine and every other theologian you can name, they read Genesis as allegory, symbol, etc.
How do you guarantee what you say? Do you have an argument or historical references? Or is it something you just know? I'd be interested to see evidence.
Quote:At which point of the tanakh does it switch to fairy tale mode to reality mode?
To determine this you have to use your brain.
The old time people whom you consider to be naive were in fact often more sophisticated about reading texts than modern people. Today people assume that every sentence has to be a straightforward declarative sentence unless proved otherwise. But not in the old days. Have you read any Plato?
Hermeneutics is an old field.