Alexandria Quote by Philo

“allegorical interpretation. This was one of the most influential approaches to biblical interpretation until the Reformation of the sixteenth century. The roots of allegorical…

— Nathan P. Feldmeth

“People were no longer concerned with understanding what a text said or what a thing was from the aspect of its fulfillment, but from…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The formation of a unified standard (biblical) text probably also involved the elimination of terms and structures that were too archaic to be understood…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“Kabbalah (in Hebrew, literally “receiving”) refers to the mystical traditions that encompass the secrets of the Torah, the esoteric truths that reveal the most…

— Benjamin Blech

The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with the vice…

— John Calvin

“In Greek, the most significant area to which these curricula were reduced was the rudiments of Aristotelian logic. It is possible, for instance, to…

— Dimitri Gutas

“The later writings of the Old Testament were composed in a degenerate type of Hebrew, often made more difficult by the introduction of archaic…

— James John Courtenay

“During the first century A.D., Alexandria was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic, and neo-Platonic…

— Michael Baigent

The history of interpretation [of the Bible] is fascinating; but that is something else.

— Frank Moore Cross

The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions…

— Northrop Frye

“An abundance of pictorial fancy, after all, furnished the simple mind quite as much matter for deviating from pure doctrine as any personal interpretation…

— Johan Huizinga