spockrates Wrote:So let's say we disagree about a painting we see. Who would be most qualified to settle the disagreement and tell us whose interpretation of the work of art is more accurate?
Why, the painter themselves of course. This is why it's absolutely critical to my p.o.v. to understand firstly that none of the Gospels were written by the people tradition likes to say wrote them and secondly the sort of people living at the time i.e. Jewish philosophers in a Hellenistic world e.g. Philo of Alexandria whose allegorical interpretation of the OT foreshadows Christian thought. Yes, knowing the type of person who wrote the Gospels is key to understanding what I believe to be an allegory.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
