I have to wonder about the depth of current education, when someone styled a ‘theologian’ says that they see a ‘virgin v whore’ dichotomy in the Bible’s depiction of women.
They obviously haven’t studied ancient thought, symbology, and philosophy deeply enough to get beyond their shallow and simplistic modern thinking. They are making religion banal, common, uninteresting - a grave mistake that they don’t seem wise enough to even recognize.
Sorry; read too fast - it was an actor who saw that dichotomy.
But feminists have also interpreted it in that way, and keep reducing the bible to their ideology.
The books of the Bible were written from within a patriarchal culture; but the symbology of it is larger than that, and can’t be reduced to the simple values of modern feminist thought about men and women. The ancient people didn’t have those values, and saw much deeper into masculine and feminine principles than simply sex.
The genius of the Bible lies in the many levels upon which it can be read.