LOL!!! You aren't studying the Bible for yourself. You are regurgitating ICC, German liberalism of the 1800s.
You pretended to know Hebrew and you have an interlinear.
You need to be disciplined!!! Take me to your leaders!! ;)
TRIPLE Yikes! At least we know where you are coming from. You are regurgitating old German liberal theology. It is not a balanced position. You came out of fundamentalism and now swung like a pendulum to JEDP theories. The is a pendulum swing, not a balanced swing.
You claim that the "40 days...
He is drawing from old, liberal commentaries (eg ICC) which favor the JEDP theories. That was the ONLY place I could find anything about "40 days and 40 nights" as being an idiom.
When I showed him from the biblical text that 40 days is as literal as 150 days by ADDING 110, he is avoiding.
All...
So, when 7.4 says it rained forty days and forty nights, we are supposed to believe this is an allegory (your words), then you shift to calling it an idiom that is an indeterminate amount of time.
I guess the number, 110 days in 7:24 must also be some idiom that stretches the story into an...
First, idioms are not the same as allegory. Idiomatic sayings are understood normally in their context. They are not allegory.
I maintain that these were normal days.
Moses also used "forty days" to compare to "forty years." Not exactly idiomatic.
Numbers 13:25 The spies were gone for forty...
The number 40 days is not an idiom. They are normal days. Moses, the writer, always uses the word "yom" to refer to a normal day.
When Moses says Noah was 600 years, is that an idiom as well?
Allegorical interpretations are not the same as a historical/grammatical approach to Scripture.
Double yikes! I'm struggling to stay alive since I took the Adsense off this site... I might have time to post more in a minute when my boss let's me have more time.
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