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University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. GOOD/Very Good. xi, 341 pp. From the library of Rebecca Lyman. Slight underlining and markings to margins, a few dog eared pages, some light rubbing, sound otherwise. DJ rubbed, small tear to head.
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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria Hardcover - 1991
by David Dawson
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"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 last few years scholars have, really for the first time, begun to take allegorical interpretation seriously as a subject of study. Dawson's book is the best so far. He is careful to situate allegory historically as a cultural practice. Allegory is not a technique of willful misreading or subjective play. It is the way ancient Alexandria, made up as it was of multiple conflicting traditions and incompatible forms of life, made sense of itself. Dawson's close study of how ancient writers actually worked--how they studied and thought--is a model of historical and critical research. Classicists, literary and cultural critics, biblical scholars and theologians of every tradition will have much to learn from this superb and beautifully written book."--Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
"During the last few years scholars have, really for the first time, begun to take allegorical interpretation seriously as a subject of study. Dawson's book is the best so far. He is careful to situate allegory historically as a cultural practice. Allegory is not a technique of willful misreading or subjective play. It is the way ancient Alexandria, made up as it was of multiple conflicting traditions and incompatible forms of life, made sense of itself. Dawson's close study of how ancient writers actually worked--how they studied and thought--is a model of historical and critical research. Classicists, literary and cultural critics, biblical scholars and theologians of every tradition will have much to learn from this superb and beautifully written book."--Gerald L. Bruns, University of Notre Dame
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- Title Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
- Author David Dawson
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First printing
- Pages 356
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 1991-12-02
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520071025 / 0520071026
- Weight 1.63 lbs (0.74 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.6 x 1.08 in (22.81 x 16.76 x 2.74 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Allegory, Gnosticism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91002851
- Dewey Decimal Code 121.680
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