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    It is not the case that Isaiah 66 is not to be taken literally

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    • 1.Isaiah uses apocalyptic literary genre with symbolic imagery (e.g., new heavens/earth), which demands interpretive rather than literal reading.
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    • 2.A literal reading produces logical contradictions (e.g., physical death persisting in the new creation) that non-literal interpretation resolves.
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    • 3.Ancient Jewish interpretive tradition treated prophetic visions as typological and figurative, not strictly literal depictions of future events.
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