Allegory in the Bible

by Cyrus Adler

Overview

A study of the use of allegory in the Bible, including the following topics:
Early Allegorism.
Alexandrian Allegorism.
The Wisdom of Solomon
Radical Allegorism.
Josephus
Philo
Palestinian Allegorism.
Book of Jubilees.
The Essenes.
Early Tannaim.
Judah the Patriarch
Akiba and His School.
Judah the Patriarch.
Palestinian Amoraim.
The Targums.
Rashi and Ibn Ezra.
Philosophic Allegory.
Saadia.
Solomon ibn Gabirol.
Maimonides.
Pseudo-Maimonidean Writings.
The Opposition to Maimonides.
Mystical Allegorism.
Zohar.
General Allegorization of the Law.
Isaac Arama.
In the New Testament.
Epistle to the Hebrews.
The Apostolic Fathers.
Gnosticism.
Antiochian School.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015967739
Publisher:	Franklin Religious Publishing
Publication date:	01/11/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	144 KB

About the Author

Adler was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania in 1883 and gained a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1887, where he taught Semitic languages from 1884 to 1893. He was employed by the Smithsonian Institution for a number of years, with a focus on archaeology and Semitics, serving as the Librarian from 1892-1905. He was a founder of the Jewish Welfare Board, and an editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, and part of the committee that translated the Jewish Publication Society version of the Hebrew Bible published in 1917. At the end of World War I, he participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. His many scholarly writings include articles on comparative religion, Assyriology, and Semitic philology.