Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria Book

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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
Written by author David Dawson
Published by University of California Press, December 1991
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
"This approach to allegory, which discriminates among past disputes and present positions, will confirm . . . that the varying sociocultural functions of allegory . . . needed the fuller exposition Dawson has given them."—Frank Kermode"During the

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Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
1 Pagan Etymology and Allegory 23
Ancient Myth and Stoic Etymology 24
Reading Homer as an Allegorical Poet 38
Opposition to Etymology and Allegory 52
2 Philo: The Reinscription of Reality 73
Jewish Allegory and Hellenism 74
Representation and Textualization 83
The World within the Text 113
3 Valentinus: The Apocalypse of the Mind 127
Allegorical Interpretation as Composition 129
Mystical Vision and Allegorical Revision 145
Christian Initiation and the History Within 170
4 Clement: The New Song of the Logos 183
Logos Theology as Allegorical Hermeneutic 186
The Antecedent Voice of Cultural Classics 199
Sectarianism and Domesticated Gnosis 219
Afterword 235
Notes 241
Bibliography 297
General Index 319
Scripture Passages Cited 333
Ancient Passages Cited 335

Title: Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria

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Publication Date: December 1991

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Excellent investigation into Plato's use of existing rhetorical forms in order to critique and uproot the socio-political situation of classical Athens.

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	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Pagan Etymology and Allegory	23
	Ancient Myth and Stoic Etymology	24
	Reading Homer as an Allegorical Poet	38
	Opposition to Etymology and Allegory	52
2	Philo: The Reinscription of Reality	73
	Jewish Allegory and Hellenism	74
	Representation and Textualization	83
	The World within the Text	113
3	Valentinus: The Apocalypse of the Mind	127
	Allegorical Interpretation as Composition	129
	Mystical Vision and Allegorical Revision	145
	Christian Initiation and the History Within	170
4	Clement: The New Song of the Logos	183
	Logos Theology as Allegorical Hermeneutic	186
	The Antecedent Voice of Cultural Classics	199
	Sectarianism and Domesticated Gnosis	219
	Afterword	235
	Notes	241
	Bibliography	297
	General Index	319
	Scripture Passages Cited	333
	Ancient Passages Cited	335