Interpretation and allegory : antiquity to the modern period /

Other Authors: Whitman, Jon,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2000.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 101
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=105537
Table of Contents:
  • A retrospective forward : interpretation, allegory, and historical change / Jon Whitman
  • Present perspectives : antiquity to the late Middle Ages / Jon Whitman
  • Language, text, and truth in ancient polytheist exegesis / Robert Lamberton
  • Plato's soul and the body of the text in Philo and Origen / David Dawson
  • Theology and exegesis in Midrashic literature / Marc Hirshman
  • Allegory and reading God's book : Paul and Augustine on the destiny of Israel / Paula Fredriksen
  • The utilization of allegory in Islamic philosophy / Alfred L. Ivry
  • On Maimonides' allegorical readings of scripture / Warren Zev Harvey
  • Philosophic allegory in medieval Jewish culture : the crisis in Languedoc (1304-6) / Gregg Stern
  • Philosophy, commentary, and mythic narrative in twelfth-century France / Winthrop Wetherbee
  • Quadruplex sensus, multiplex modus : scriptural sense and mode in medieval Scholastic exegesis / A.J. Minnis
  • Present perspectives : the late Middle Ages to the modern period / Jon Whitman
  • Allegory and divine names in ecstatic Kabbalah / Moshe Idel
  • Boccaccio : the mythographer of the city / Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
  • Renaissance hieroglyphic studies : an overview / Charles Dempsey
  • Sixteenth-century emblems and imprese as indicators of cultural change / Peter M. Daly
  • Vera narratio : Vico's new science of mythology / Joseph Mali
  • Allegory as the trope of memory : registers of cultural time in Schlegel and Novalis / Azade Seyhan
  • Constructions of allegory/allegories of construction : rethinking history through Benjamin and Freud / Rainer Nägele
  • Allegory and the aesthetic ideology / Tobin Siebers.