This theological need, plus acculturation to Hellenism, led to a more positive Jewish interpretation of the Alexander legacy.

The traditional Jewish interpretation is that the Servant is a metaphor for the Jewish people, an opinion shared by many contemporary scholars.

Another Christian interpretation combines aspects of the traditional Christian and the Jewish interpretation.

It is at this point that Jewish and Christian interpretations diverge.

In some Jewish interpretations, the light created here is a primordial light, different in nature from (and brighter than) that associated with the sun.

In the 1980's, he was struck by the multiplicity of Jewish religious interpretations and practices recorded in the scrolls.

According to one Jewish interpretation of creation, Adam was created in 3761 BCE.

According to Jewish interpretations the victim in criminal law gets financial compensation based on the law of human equality eschewing mutilation and lex talionis.

Early Christian preaching sometimes accepted Jewish interpretations of the binding of Isaac without elaborating.

And finally there is the "normative tradition," all the orthodoxies of later biblical, Jewish, Christian or scholarly interpretations.