Allegoresis

[Paul Mackin]

On Oct 8, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Keith McMullen wrote:

> The phrase "what it literally says" is best understood allegorically.

There are no facts, only interpretation.

--Neitzsche


>
> On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>
> Longxi, Zhang.  Allegoresis:
>    Reading Canonical Literature East and West.
>    Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005.
>
> Why is it that a text, particularly a canonical text,
> is often said to contain a meaning different from what
> it literally says?
>