Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period

Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
GENERAL INTRODUCTION......Page 18
1. A Retrospective Forward: Interpretation, Allegory, and Historical Change......Page 20
PART ONE: ANTIQUITY TO THE LATE MIDDLE AGES......Page 48
2. Present Perspectives: Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages [Prologue to chapters 3–11]......Page 50
A: Antique interpretation of formative texts: \'units\' of analysis......Page 51
B: Medieval philosophic designs: \'textures\' of interpretation......Page 62
A. Antique Interpretation of Formative Texts......Page 88
3. Language, Text, and Truth in Ancient Polytheist Exegesis......Page 90
4. Plato\'s Soul and the Body of the Text in Philo and Origen......Page 106
5. Theology and Exegesis in Midrashic Literature......Page 126
6. Allegory and Reading God\'s Book: Paul and Augustine on the Destiny of Israel......Page 142
B. Medieval Philosophic Designs......Page 168
7. The Utilization of Allegory in Islamic Philosophy......Page 170
8. On Maimonides\' Allegorical Readings of Scripture......Page 198
9. Philosophic Allegory in Medieval Jewish Culture: The Crisis in Languedoc (1304–6)......Page 206
10. Philosophy, Commentary, and Mythic Narrative in Twelfth-Century France......Page 228
11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis......Page 248
PART TWO: THE LATE MIDDLE AGES TO THE MODERN PERIOD......Page 274
D: Eighteenth- to twentieth-century theories of allegory: \'temporalities\' of discourse......Page 276
C. Late Medieval and Renaissance Sign Systems......Page 332
13. Allegory and Divine Names in Ecstatic Kabbalah......Page 334
14. Boccaccio: The Mythographer of the City......Page 366
15. Renaissance Hieroglyphic Studies: An Overview......Page 382
16. Sixteenth-Century Emblems and Imprese as Indicators of Cultural Change......Page 400
D. Eighteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theories of Allegory......Page 438
17. Vera Narratio: Vice\'s New Science of Mythology......Page 440
18. Allegory as the Trope of Memory: Registers of Cultural Time in Schlegel and Novalis......Page 454
19. Constructions of Allegory / Allegories of Construction: Rethinking History through Benjamin and Freud......Page 468
20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology......Page 486
Contributors......Page 504
Index......Page 510
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T......Page 517
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a. Jewish Scripture: works......Page 526
c. New Testament: works......Page 527
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v. Cross-references between chapters in this volume (passages referring to designated chapters)......Page 529