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Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria

Name: Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
Price: 53.01 GBP
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Author: David Dawson
ISBN: 9780520071025

by David Dawson

Hardback
356 pages
Publisher: University of California Press
16.8 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm

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For students of classics and Christian history

Guides you through complex ancient interpretation

Gain new insights into the roots of church thought

Uncover how ancient writers used allegory to reinterpret culture and faith.

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Describes how some ancient pagan, Jewish, and Christian interpreters used allegory to endorse, revise, and subvert competing Christian and pagan world views. This book presents three Hellenistic religious writers who each typify distinctive models of allegorical interpretation: Philo, Valentinus, and Clement.