re: #540 windsagio

*trying again*

So you’re saying theres a tendency to over look the anthropological element?

No, it’s even more than that. Consider, in the case of the Jews - as a people largely constituted BY a set of texts, to attempt to understand the texts in terms of the people is impossible and pointlessly absurd. The texts were the cause, the people the effect, in a sense.

What I’m getting at is that revelation creates so many problems that the texts cannot be treated like conventional literary output if one hopes to try to understand them.