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Which meaning do you hold to?

Original story tellers (etiological)
Literal words (divine)
Original authors (directive)
Crisis driven guidance (symbolic)
Post historic debate (rabbinic)
Modern scholarship (adjudicative)

Welcome to biblical studies, I guess. I am finding this far more rewarding than studying the religion as a given.

Which meaning do you hold to?

Original story tellers (etiological)
Literal words (divine)
Original authors (directive)
Crisis driven guidance (symbolic)
Post historic debate (rabbinic)
Modern scholarship (adjudicative)

Welcome to biblical studies, I guess. I am finding this far more rewarding than studying the religion as a given.

Which meaning do you hold to?

Original story tellers (etiological)
Literal words (divine)
Original authors (timely interpretation)
Crisis driven post exile (symbolic guidance)
Post historic debate (rabbinic)
Historiographical revision (modern scholarship)

Welcome to biblical studies, I guess. I am finding this far more rewarding than studying the religion as a given.

Test comment.

Which meaning do you hold to?

1. when God speaks in the holy texts (divine source)
2. Of the stories had to the people who shared them (etiological)
3. interpreted by the people who wrote them down (holy guidance)
4. derived by the people who struggled with exile (exilic guidance)
5. debated during post historic reverence (rabbinic)
6. re discovered in relative modernity (scholarship)

To name a few