Interpretation and allegory : antiquity to the modern period
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Interpretation and allegory : antiquity to the modern period
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 101）
Brill, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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This major investigation of the theory and practice of interpretation is unparalleled in design. Concentrating on interpretive allegory, its interdisciplinary approach simultaneously opens and organizes new perspectives on historic developments - from pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic commentaries to postmodern critiques.
Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period is the recipient of The Polonsky Foundation 2001 Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities.
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Table of Contents
Preface
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1. A Retrospective Forward: Interpretation, Allegory, and Historical Change, Jon Whitman
PART I. ANTIQUITY TO THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
2. Present Perspectives: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages [Prologue to chapters 3-11], Jon Whitman
A. ANTIQUE INTERPRETATION OF FORMATIVE TEXTS
3. Language, Text, and Truth in Ancient Polytheist Exegesis, Robert Lamberton
4. Plato's Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo and Origen, David Dawson
5. Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature, Marc Hirshman
6. Allegory and Reading God's Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel, Paula Fredriksen
B. MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHIC DESIGNS
7. The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy, Alfred L. Ivry
8. On Maimonides' Allegorical Readings of Scripture, Warren Zev Harvey
9. Philosophic Allegory in Medieval Jewish Culture: The Crisis in Languedoc (1304-6), Gregg Stern
10. Philosophy, Commentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France, Winthrop Wetherbee
11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis, A.J. Minnis
PART II. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD
12. Present Perspectives: The Late Middle Ages to the Modern Period [Prologue to chapters 13-20], Jon Whitman
C. LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE SIGN SYSTEMS
13. Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah, Moshe Idel
14. Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City, Giuseppe F. Mazzotta
15. Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: An Overview, Charles Dempsey
16. Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change, Peter M. Daly
D. EIGHTEENTH- TO TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEORIES OF ALLEGORY
17. Vera Narratio: Vico's New Science of Mythology, Joseph Mali
18. Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time in Schlegel and Novalis, Azade Seyhan
19. Constructions of Allegory / Allegories of Construction: Rethinking History through Benjamin and Freud, Rainer Nagele
20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology, Tobin Siebers
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