Questions tagged [layers-of-meaning]
A literary technique where an author expects his audience to see additional meaning other than what a literal reading of the text conveys.
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What does the light symbolize on the 1st day of God's creation, in Moses' Cosmology?
Specifically, I'm not asking what this light was (This would be very difficult), but what does this light symbolize on the 1st day of God's creation, in the cosmology of Moses?
It would also be ...
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Deeper understanding of Ezekiel 11:3's "...The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.."
Ezekiel 11:3 's English translation sort of throws a spanner in the works in regard to how the Western 21st century bible reader can understand Ezekiel 11.
Ezekiel 11:1-4
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Ezekiel 8"each man in the room of his carved images" shows Israelites metaphorical idolatry being uniquely different with different Israelites
I might just be asking the obvious.
Some parts Ezekiel 8 could certainly be describing how Israel actually fell into outwardly expressive explicit idolatry where they adopted the religious customs of ...
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