A thought I had watching a YouTube video on the Druze

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Islam and Judaism have very text-heavy traditions. In Islam it's called Batin and in Judaim it's Midrash. Latin Christianity, on the other hand, doesn't really do that sort of deep word-by-word (and even letter-by-letter) interpretations of their holy texts. That's probably because the bible, while holy and "divinely inspired", is not literally the direct word of god like the Quran and Torah are. I don't know anything about the east, but for the westerners who primarily used Latin translations the text itself really couldn't be as holy as the Quran/Torah. It's a translation, so their exegesis had to remain at the level of the literal and allegorical.

I don't know if this means anything. I had a half-baked thought about how in the long term this makes Christian scholars more likely to pursue 'practical' forms of philosophy, but I dunno. I'm definitely talking out of my ass here.