(November 29, 2011 at 1:53 am)apophenia Wrote: What the hell does that even mean?.
Well, that means that one would be able to discern Hebrew theological fantasies from traditional legends.
For example You read in Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them”, that is a traditional legend common in almost every culture on earth.
Then you reach passage 2:8 where you learn that God had formed only males, no females at all, and then follows the funny story about the rib of Adam. That is theological fantasies not worth studying.
The garden as a place is also a fantasy. As an epoch it is a traditional legend that one can study and possibly arrive at some reasonable explanation about the origins of the legend.