[metmom]

You don’t have to answer that, but that’s what he and I were discussing. I believe Genesis is history.

And the whole book at that.

For if one presumes that the creation account and the Flood are allegory, and therefore not true, actual factual events, then the same interpretation must be made of the entire book.

That means that Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and Joseph are allegorical, as well, along with Egypt and Sodom and Gomorrah, and the other cities of the plain that archaeologists have found evidence for.

Ooops....

[Mr. Silverback]

Well, someone could believe there’s a point where the allegory stops and the history starts, but once you get into “This is phrased as history, but I don’t think it really is,” you get of in the weeds very quickly.

[magritte]

"then the same interpretation must be made of the entire book..."

Why? Even though Maimonides believed the creation story was written metaphorically, he believed that Moses was an actual person and saw no problems with that belief...magritte