re: #112 Alouette

Jews do not interpret the scriptures literally. There are millennia-old exegetical texts arguing over every nuance of the Hebrew scriptures.

Now, what the excuse of the American Protestant Biblical Literalist is, I couldn’t tell you.

Jews have an actual legal system based off the text.

Oddly, so do Muslims, but that doesn’t seem to help the Gellers of the world as they insist that ‘sharia’ represents each Muslim’s personal responsibility to carry out the less pleasant parts of the Koran as interpreted by Robert Spencer.