Allegory versus literalism.

[Union Scribe]

1. My views are similar

The Bible is such a rich combination of narratives and literature, and I've reached the same conclusions as you about a general difference between old and new testaments. I think the new testament is, besides Revelation, attempting to record a historical chain of events which I choose to accept as a more or less real account including miracles, whereas the purposes and voices of the old testament are much more varied and complicated. There's poetry and social instruction and lineages and history and theology. And of course in many places they're likely blended together. But since the messages that I find interesting are the more literary and philosophical books I primarily focus on those and the new testament.