...If you prefer the more literal Pshat to speculative Drash, why do you reject an obvious sense based on a well established meaning of the word (and a well established translation and interpretation tradition) in favour of a speculative completely new sense of the word?
I prefer Pshat to Drash. This is Drash based on the insistance that the term must refer to an object, in particular a female of the human persuasion. But a feminine noun can also indicate that it refers to an abstract concept, such as in this case “the unknown”.
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