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This is a false dichotomy. If there is a justification for your preferred "context based interpretation" can you please explain what it is?
Sure, scholars like John Walton and David Rosenberg, among others, use their familiarity with what can be learned about the culture and thinking of the time to create a means to gain some understanding of the text as it was written. Literary devices such as the use of periods of time to represent ideas of sequence and completion, the meanings of specific terms in their original setting and so on add up to provide a coherent and useful framework for understanding the text. I find that useful. What are essentially personal interpretations, which vary quite a bit even when more or less in the same ball park, less so.
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