Huh, how had i missed that before? That gels perfectly with what i have read elsewhere about Paul being influenced by Philo of Alexandria.
The response i have received to questions of this sort is that literal reading of the text does not exclude *also* reading it figuratively. Of course, there are situations where this causes problems -- where the figurative reading goes in a very different direction and the text cannot support both. But then, literaist reading depends on reading 'myopically' and avoiding the fact that the "big picture" does not support their views.
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Huh, how had i missed that before? That gels perfectly with what i have read elsewhere about Paul being influenced by Philo of Alexandria.
The response i have received to questions of this sort is that literal reading of the text does not exclude *also* reading it figuratively. Of course, there are situations where this causes problems -- where the figurative reading goes in a very different direction and the text cannot support both. But then, literaist reading depends on reading 'myopically' and avoiding the fact that the "big picture" does not support their views.