We should probably distinguish between two levels of explanation: The religious explanation, and the historic/scientific explanation. The "foreshadowing"-expla

We should probably distinguish between two levels of explanation: The religious explanation, and the historic/scientific explanation. The "foreshadowing"-explanation is a religious explanation. The historic/scientific explanation is that the two versions are from two different oral traditions that have been merged into the same book. Both kind of explanation are interesting, but they are also largely incompatible, and I think it always should be made very clear which perspective one is arguing from.