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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria (Hardcover, New)
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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria (Hardcover, New)
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Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as
counterreadings, starting with denial of negation, challenging the
literal sense: "You have read the text this way, but I will read it
differently". The author insists that ancient allegory is best
understood not simply as a way of reading texts, but as a way of
using non-literal readings to reinterpret culture and society. Here
he describes how some ancient pagan, Jewish and Christian
interpreters used allegory to endorse, revise and subvert competing
Christian and pagan world views. This reassessment of allegorical
reading emphasized socio-cultural contexts rather than purely
formal literary features, opening with an analysis of the pagan use
of etymology and allegory in the Hellenistic world and pagan
opposition to both techniques. The remainder of the book presents
three Hellenistic religious writers who each typify distinctive
models of allegorical interpretation: the Jewish exegete Philo, the
Christian Gnostic Valentinus and the Christian Platonist Clement.
The study engages issues in the fields of classics, history of
Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism, literary criticism and theory
and more broadly, criti
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