Against LSM's Allegorizing

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

And Joseph's brothers were also filling some psychological archetype to be villains? How about Potipher, or Potipher's wife, of the Pharoah, or the baker, or the butler? Sorry, I believe that any observations that would seem to correspond with this theory are because we have a human spirit, not learned mythology.

The human spirit doesn't explain the use of typology, allegory, analogy, and metaphor in the Bible. The theory of archetypes does. Jesus fulfilled, sometimes paradoxically, the messianic expectation of Judaism. The messiah is a sub-category of the hero archetype which is found throughout world mythology. The hero-savior-messiah obviously fills a deep seated universal human need.