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Original Intent

http://jbq.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/402/jbq_402_NoahsArk.pdf

Can a falsehood written or spoken be later claimed by others to be an analogy or metaphor? Metaphor and analogy are literary techniques . Did the writers of Genesis intend this as a metaphor or were they just ignorant?

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CyberLN's picture
It certainly can. Anything

It certainly can. Anything can be claimed. Whether or not that claim is worth a crap is what the real question should be. In this case, I would say only the originator can Actually verify what they intended. Anything from anyone else is merely conjecture.

Jeff Vella Leone's picture
Thanks for the link, it was

Thanks for the link, it was an interesting read.

"Can a falsehood written or spoken be later claimed by others to be an analogy or metaphor?"

It can but in this case it is the other way round.

A metaphor/allegory being used by other cultures can be misunderstood quite easily.

If you look at the bible, the New testament is a Pro-roman hijacking of the Jewish religion that happened much later.

The Noah story is in itself a copy of other Babylonian flood myths mixed with Jewish elements by the use of allegory and metaphors to convey a Jewish meaning.

This most likely happened when the elite Jewish people were exiled to Babylon and started to be influenced by Babylonian myths and culture.

"The next world is the Noah-world which
includes justice and laws. It is this newly created world for which a promise
of unending existence could be given."

Yea, after the exile in Babylon, this was one of the meanings that the elite Jews wanted to convey to the Jewish people.

That after disaster(food/exile), where everything is lost, there is still hope, that god will deliver to the Jewish people if they are righteous and follow Jewish laws.(their elite laws) :)

The Jews improved upon the concept of allegory and they tried to insert multiple meanings in their stories and text by changing the context and giving hints at what context you should be using to understand the allegory/metaphor.

Vincent Paul Tran1's picture
Jeff, I do not know of a

Jeff, I do not know of a single jewish person that takes genesis literally. i honestly do not know why christians feel the need to. opine?

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