I think throwing tomatos would have been a more appropriate metaphor, but seriously, an interesting spin on it, makes as much sense as any other spin I have heard.
Trying to fathom what writers from 4000 years ago meant when they penned their stories is really a leap when you think about it. I remember in the movie Back To School when Rodney Dangerfield gets Kurt Vonnegut to write a paper for him on a Vonnegut novel, and the professor tells him that it was obvious he didn't write the paper and whoever did write had no idea what Vonnegut really meant.
What was included, what it means, what the writer was trying to say, how can we begin to even imagine we know.