(March 8, 2024 at 12:21 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The original compilers were hellenized non christians. That they included multiple conflicting accounts of creation (not just in genesis, all throughout the ot) suggests that they did not see genesis the way that christians must, it's literal interpretation being fundamental to the christ myth in ways that it isn't fundamental to judaism. The message in the ot, from all of those accounts - is that god created the world for us and uniquely endowed us with godlike powers. A what, and not a how. You might want to look at regional details like flavor text for specific audiences.
Interesting... but flavor text still implies it was meant to be taken literally by those specific audiences, right? Ie the fact of including details such as that is just not something you would do if you were speaking allegorically to any audience?
