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Hardcover Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria Book

ISBN: 0520071026

ISBN13: 9780520071025

Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria

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...

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