Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria 1st Edition by David Dawson ISBN 978-0520910386 0520910386

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ISBN 10:  0520910386 

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Author: David Dawson

Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as counterreadings, starting with denial or negation, challenging the literal sense: “You have read the text this way, but I will read it differently.” David Dawson 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 emphasizes 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, critical theory and cultural criticism.

Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as counterreadings, starting with denial or negation, challenging the literal sense: “You have read the text this way, but I will read it differently.” David Dawson insists that ancient alle

Table of contents: 

1. Pagan Etymology and Allegory
2. Philo – The Reinscription of Reality
3. Valentinus – The Apocalypse of the Mind
4. Clement – The New Song of the Logos
5. Afterword
6. Notes
7. Select Bibliography of Works Consulted
8. General Index
9. Scripture Passages Cited
10. Ancient Passages Cited

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