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Informationen zum Autor John David Dawson is Professor of Religion and Comparative Literature and Constance and Robert MacCrate Professor in Social Responsibility at Haverford College. He is author of Literary Theory (1995)! in the Guides to Theological Inquiry series and Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria (California! 1992). Klappentext "David Dawson’s Christian Figural Reading is an elegant, deeply important and wonderfully complex book. Interweaving themes from early Christian scholarship, literary theory, and contemporary Christian thought, the text offers a challenge to scholars across a number of currently contested and fast-moving fields, demanding of us all that we rethink Biblical interpretation as ‘the principal site of the tension between past and future.’ The hero of the book is Origen: Dawson shows how the continual transformation of identity in the light of constant attention to the mysterious ‘performance’ of the divine in history is at the center of Origen’s method. In the book’s key twist Dawson argues that this Origenist process of figural reading can serve to reshape Christiansí understanding of their own engagement with Israel. Here Origen the promoter of fanciful and supercessionist Christian reading becomes the resource, beyond even Boyarin, Auerbach and Frei, for rethinking this most dangerous of intercultural engagements. Early Christian scholars, theologians, literary theorists, all will need to attend to Dawson’s argument."—Lewis Ayres, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Zusammenfassung Analyzes the practice and theory of 'figural' reading in the Christian tradition of Biblical interpretation by looking at writings of Jewish and Christian thinkers, both ancient and modern, who have reflected on that form of traditional Christian Biblical interpretation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part One. Figural Reading and the Body 1. Body against Spirit: Daniel Boyarin 2. Allegory and Embodiment: Boyarin and Origen 3. Spiritual Bodies: Origen Part Two. Figural Reading and History 4. The Figure in the Fulfillment: Erich Auerbach 5. The Preservation of Historical Reality: Auerbach and Origen 6. The Present Occurrence of Past Events: Origen Part Three. Figural Reading and Identity 7. The Literal Sense and Personal Identity: Hans Frei 8. Moses Veiled and Unveiled: Frei and Origen 9. Identity and Transformation: Origen Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
