Scriptures and Talmud – What is Reality and What is Parable?

Yaron Yadan 09/29/2006

The method of allegorical interpretation is not consistent and the reader cannot tell when something is parable and when it is not.

The Sages' rhetorical and odd interpretation of the Scriptures.

The Sages' interpretations of the Mishnah are puzzling and odd.

The method of allegorical interpretation is not consistent and the reader cannot tell when something is parable and when it is not.

The Sages of the Talmud thought that G-d has a body and human qualities.

The development of ink production and how the decisions of sages in later generations become, post facto 'tradition given to Moses at Sinai'.