When you realize this is how early christians were reading the old testament, a lot of things begin to make sense.
>>18124384>the hare grows a fresh orifice in its backside every year and has as many of these holes as the years of its lifewhat
>>18124516I think their allegorical interpretations need allegorical interpretations
>>18124516I guess they saw a hare change fur color with the seasons and thought it was changing its entire skin?
>>18124516Monks literally didn't go outside.
>>18124384what book
>its allegorical o algo>but no he is literally the son of god>and he literally came back from the dead>and he literally walked on water
>>18124875Epistle of Barnabas wasn't written by a monk.
So is the stuff about sodomy metaphorical too?
>>18125251Says on the top of the page.>>18125257Have you read Paul's letters? He interprets scripture alegorically constantly.
>>18125257>The Bible is literalyou mean oral. the literal construct you use is corruptedevery prirst from every religion share their beliefs orally. literacy is a meme
>>18125398I don't personally think any of this was meant to be allegorical, but the author of Barnabas clearly thought a lot of it was, although he dislikes homos too.
>>18125398It's a myth about how Judah's rival nations of Moab and Ammon descend from incest and are thus badevilwrong about everything and should let themselves be conquered by the author's preferred king. Nothing more to it.
>>18124384>the prohibition on eating hare meat is actually a prohibition on raping young boys what
>>18124516People in the past thought really weird things about animals. In addition to believing in phoenixes and other completely made up animals. Seeing how much actual weirdness exists in nature though, I can't say I blame them. For instance the bit about hyenas changing sex has some basis in reality. It's not quite what happens, but the females do have a pseudo-penis, plus there are some animals that really do change sex.
>>18126455it's of the general quality and sanity of 'metaphorical interpretation'.
>>18124384>We don't hold any of the old testament prohibitions on consumption of certain animal products as legitimate, so obviously the jews just misinterpreted godOk
I've seen bigger piles of scalding bullshit >no seriously six million of us died
>>18124384Okay guys, you shouldn't be a horse. Stop being a horse, NOW
>>18124384>if you take out the context and interpret everything however I want I can shoehorn my new death cult in>also jesus is the actual messiah predicted in the old testamentWhy are you like this?
>>18124384I do not think that those deserve the name "interpretation". a piece of text is quoted, then something completely unrelated is posited as "interpretation". anyone falling for this has to come up with a reason his gawd would not just state the plain message.
>>18127034I'm not saying Barnabas is making reasonable infrences, just that he (and clearly a lot of early christians) read scripture in bizzare ways.
