I understand the sarcasm, but lose how you answer my question, again: "What do you mean [by allegory] and what would the allegory represent?" Or if your answer is sincere, its tone is incongruous so far as I can tell. What are you saying?
The definition of allegory that I am working with is this, from Merriam-Webster
2 : a symbolic representation
The allegory is God describing His creation in terms of symbolic time frames the citizens of of the age would understand. They knew what a day was therefore God spoke to them of His creation in those terms.
Again, I suspect your definition of "allegory" needs to be made clear. The Bible is peppered with a variety of ancient "literary devices" such as parallelism (in poetry) and therefore synonyms, etc., puns (a number in Genesis), metaphors, synecdoche, chiasm, object lessons (if I can include that in the list), typology, symbolism, allusion, hyperbole, repetition, parable (parable requires its own expansion elsewhere), foreshadowing, and whatever is tied to interpreting varied genre such as wisdom literature, narrative, song (e.g., laments), and multi-symbolic apocalyptic.
But allegory? In some cases, yes (e.g., how about Judges 9:7-15?) and depending (in apocalyptic lit.?). Then there's the whole rabbinic interpretation tradition (midrash, pesher, ...). But "the Bible is full of allegory"? The online OED says an allegory is: "A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral [we might add religious] or political one" (material in square brackets my addition). Unless your reading of the Bible is esoteric (like a Gnostic or "Bible numerologist," for example), I suspect your "full of allegory" characterization of the Bible is exaggerated (... unless you being satirical somehow?).
Are you telling me that a parable is not a type of allegory?
Parable: a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels.
Allegory (to use your definition): a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Those two definitions look remarkably similar to me.
Granted as I wrote, I understand only some of Schroeder's theory. For one thing (as I wrote), it relies on the General Theory of Relativity (Einstein's one, which has received some experimental confirmation since it was published), of which my understanding is limited. Schroeder's theory so far as I know also relies on other aspects of physics and mathematics, measurements and calculations from the field of astronomy (like Doppler shifts) and chemistry, CERN measurements and calculations, not to re-mention rabbinic exegesis. For all I know, Schroeder's theory may be wrong, but your above characterization sounds like "nothing more" than cavalier dismissal rather than informed critique.
It's nothing more than a thought experiment because Schroeder offered no evidence to support his hypothesis.
Not to mention that saying that God's "day" is a different frame of reference than ours does nothing to negate the fact that, from
our frame of reference, the universe appears to have existed for approximately 13.4 billion years and the earth for approximately 4.5 billion years.
In principle I suppose, but again, what allegory from Genesis 1?
The whole of Genesis 1 is God putting His creation into chronological terms that the people of the time understood.
And why do you include "Luke 13" (presumably vv. 10-17)?
It's simply another place in the Bible that refers back to Genesis.
If you mean something about the Sabbath in Genesis 2 (the Sabbath is not in Genesis 1 but it is referred to in Exodus 20), how is whatever point you want to make tied to allegory? If the Sabbath in Genesis 2:1-3 is "allegorical," how do you know (and what do you mean)?
It's allegorical in that it wasn't really 168 hours but is in reference to chronological terms the people of the time understood (morning and evening comprising one day).
The creation Sabbath adumbrates the Mosaic weekly Sabbath and for example Joshua's rest and more (cf. Hebrews 3-4, Psalm 95, and Isa. 58:5-7--the latter where the Sabbath is a type of liberation), but are you suggesting God did not rest (i.e., He stopped creating) in some or all senses, or that His creation resting was symbolic of something other than ceasing from creating--if so, what and how do you know or how do you substantiate your claim?
I can't parse this out enough to understand what you are talking about.
God is simply saying "As I rested from my work, so too should you should rest from your work".
Or are you only saying the creation week 7th day was not a literal 24 hour day as the Mosaic weekly Sabbath was, but if so, what thematic correspondence(s) do you see with the Mosaic weekly Sabbath of Exodus 20 or how does the word "allegory" relate?
I assume you believe Moses wrote the Pentateuch. As God told Moses of His work during the Creation week, He spoke in chronological terms Moses would understand. The culture of the time already knew what a day was (morning and evening) so God spoke of how He created in those terms. There was no need to get into further detail as that would simply detract from the lesson God is trying to impart.
