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Questions about biblical texts belonging to the genre of Poetry, or ambiguous texts that may or may not be poetic

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Are there practical rules for distinguishing between literal and nonliteral expressions?

A question that comes up all the time for me is whether a particular passage, word, or phrase, is intended to be taken literally or nonliterally. I see a lot of work has been done to split the Bible i …
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