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Author:   Jon Whitman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   101
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.056kg
ISBN:  

9789004110397

ISBN 10:   9004110399
Pages:   518
Publication Date:   20 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Nägele 20. Allegory and the Aesthetic Ideology, Tobin Siebers Contributors Index

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' This anthology of critical and theoretical essays ... will rank as one of the most important and indispensable publications on allegory, medieval or modernThis is a rich and valuable book that will serve scholars well into the future.'<br>James J. Paxson, Speculum, 2003.<br>' For anyone interested in a grand historical and cross-cultural perspective on allegory and hermeneutics, the value of this volume is unmatched'<br>Rita Copeland, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 2004<br>

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Jon Whitman, B.Phil. (1974), Oxford, Ph.D. (1978), Harvard, is Senior Lecturer, Department of English, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His numerous studies of allegory include Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique (Oxford UP and Harvard UP, 1987).

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