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 Holy Writ was finalized in the first centuries CE according to arbitrary decisions by the Sages.

Chazal's faith in talking souls and the Scriptural permission to embalm a body and cremate it.

How the traditional rabbis handled the contradictions in Ezekiel.

The Sages of the Talmud add, subtract, and remove words from the Mishnah in order to reach their pre-determined conclusions.

The definition of a public domain in reference to the laws of Shabbat change from generation to generation.