They are all metaphorical. No one seriously imagines Adam, Noah, or Moses as historical, flesh-and-bone, people, any more than we imagine that of Paul Bunyan,

They are all metaphorical. No one seriously imagines Adam, Noah, or Moses as historical, flesh-and-bone, people, any more than we imagine that of Paul Bunyan, Slue-foot Sue, or Hamlet. Jesus, too, BTW. Everything written as if of real events came at least two generations after the cult began.