Now, in the biblical tradition, you have a political manipulation that way also.
The use of rhetoric can also be found in the ancient Biblical tradition.
Since baroque times church buildings are often not build according to the biblical tradition of orientation.
But in the biblical tradition of prophets like Isaiah, the religious community is called to speak truth to power.
This appears to be a survival of a biblical tradition:
From a Biblical or rabbinic tradition there is no basis to accept this life style.
Where it was expected that American archaeologists would try to "provide valid historical evidence of episodes from the biblical tradition".
As long as one remains within a biblical and Christian tradition, the problem may be thought to be without solution.
There is a long biblical tradition about liberation that starts with the Book of Exodus.
For Erasmus, the metaphorical interpretation was built upon the historical biblical tradition, not opposed to it.