Rabbi Shlomo Riskin makes the following statement in his Sept. 27th, 2013 commentary on Bereishit in the Jerusalem Post:
Furthermore, Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed, interprets all of the early biblical stories until the advent of Abraham as allegories, whose purpose is to convey moral lessons rather than historical fact.
Does this mean that Rambam didn't believe that anything up until the time of Abraham was literally true?
Is this a reasonable interpretation of Rambam's position as set out in the Guide?
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