>>61581>Could you give me an example of a scripture's "Jewish interpretation"?Man, just start reading the book of Genesis on sefaria.org and click on any verse, you'll always find commentary from the Talmud or important Rabbis that'll blow your mind.
For example in the story of the Patriarchs starting with Abraham, a common Jewish meme is to identify Ishmael with the Arabs/Muslims and Esau/Esav/Edom with the Romans/Christians/Europeans, with the destruction of Edom being one of the achievements the Messiah is supposed to fulfill (or that the Israelites are supposed to fulfill themselves in order for Messiah to arrive, according to other interpretations).
Another example is the scene where Moses kills an Egyptian, which the Talmudic sages interpret as meaning that a Gentile deserves the death penalty for punching a Jew "because it is as if he had punched God himself."
>You realize that blindly following religious dogma is basically anti-intellectualism rightProtestantism was born out of a rejection of the Church's dogma and a desire to get closer to the real meaning of the original texts. Stopping that endeavour and just declaring the KJV to be perfect (despite some glaring translation errors) is just intellectual laziness.
If you look at the Jews, they care a great deal about reading religious texts in the original languages (Hebrew and Aramaic for them, although I'm sure many Kabbalists are also fluent in Greek because they steal so much from Plato and the Orphics) and have very lively debates about the meanings of the text.