3. TIL The "rib" in the biblical story of Adam and Eve may actually be a mistransla...

TIL The "rib" in the biblical story of Adam and Eve may actually be a mistranslation of a euphemism for the baculum, a bone found in most mammals penises, to explain it's absence in humans.

Allegorical as in Christological; all roads and prophecies to Christ.

http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=32598.0 http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php?topic=25459.0

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As far as "allegory" in the Old Testament...the Holy Fathers see it everywhere, especially when speaking about the prophecies of Christ. They see types (and anti-types) of Christ in every nook and cranny of the OT, from the messages of the prophets, the Law of Israel, and even in the symbolism from story-to-story. Christ is "ever-present and filling all things" in the OT. One thing is certain when it comes to Orthodoxy and the OT...our faith flows directly from the faith of the Israelites as recorded. We worship the same God as they did those centuries (and millenia) ago.

This idea, however, is not without controversy in the Church. Marcion of Sinope, who I believe was an early bishop of the Church, could not accept in his heart that the "wrathful" and "violent" God of the Old Testament was the same God who came to us through Jesus Christ in love and humility. He taught that the God of Christ was different from the OT Yahweh, and thereby rejected the OT. This opinion, aptly called "Marcionism," was declared anathema by the Church and Marcion was excommunicated. Marcion began spreading the teaching around the year 144, but it took nearly 300 years to rid the Church completely of the heresy. Even then, in continued to exist in the east (beyond the realm of the Roman Empire). Many of these areas in the east would later be dominated by Manichaeism, another early heresy.

Beyond Marcionism, interpretation of dogma (and the Old Testament) as allegory versus a literal understanding was a tension that exists for many centuries within the Church. This was manifest between the two major schools of the Church, found at Antioch and Alexandria. Antioch was very much a literalist institution that was grounded in typological exegesis and focused their Christology on the distinction of humanity and divinity in Jesus. Alexandria was more mystical in their approach, and heavily applied allegory to the Scriptures. Their Christology emphasised the union of humanity and divinity in Jesus. These schools were in a give-and-take for centuries, and the Church usually found a "middle road" between their interpretations, when the arguments came down to council...several times culminating in an Ecumenical Council, such as the Council of Ephesus [which declared Nestorius (Patriarch of Constantinople and student of the Antiochian school) a heretic], the Second Council of Ephesus (declared a Robber Council by the Byzantine Orthodox) and the Council of Chalcedon [which declared Dioscorius (Pope of Alexandria and student of the Alexandrian school) a heretic. It was this council that was rejected by the Oriental Orthodox Churches, who recognized Dioscorius as Pope and Patriarch until his death, and now venerate him as a saint.

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