[editor-surveyor]

>> “Except for the parts which are clearly allegorical” <<

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That would be the parables, and nothing else.

Figurative symbols like sheep, body and blood are not allegory, they are simply symbolic.

(or did you really “tie one on” the other night?)

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Some parts of the bible are clearly allegorical. Some, like the transubstantiation of Christ's body and blood, are clearly literal.