Sentences with phrase «allegorical interpretations in»

It required them to move from literal interpretations of the texts to allegorical interpretations in which the religious insight of the texts was uncovered.

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In dealing with the problem, they made free use of an allegorical method of interpretation, which was a legacy from ancient Greek scholarship.

Clearly, the Song has been used in many allegorical interpretations.

As one who continues to delight in the poems, I cheer the ingenuity and inspiration of the allegorical interpretation which preserved the Song of Solomon.

Werner examines each of these passages in detail and concludes that in none of them is the allegorical method of interpretation necessary, while in most it is positively excluded.

As in most examples of allegorical or symbolical interpretation, the interpreter's views are first subtly read into the text and then adroitly extracted by a pretended exegesis.

Moreover, the allegorical or «symbolical» interpretation of the Gospel, which Volkmar, Holsten, and Schulze had pressed to its utmost limits, still survived — at least in the interpretation of certain crucial passages.

Also Palestinian Judaism did not avail itself of an allegorical interpretation of the mass of incomprehensible and impracticable commands in order to find in them an intelligible moral meaning This method was used only in Hellenistic Judaism under the influence of Greek thinking, as it was later in the Christian church, when it needed to come to terms with the Old Testament laws.

Instead, they went through theological contortions to stress and promote their preferred concepts of original sin and messianic redemption, and to fit literal interpretations of scriptures that were in large part allegorical.

From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation.

In addition, students learn to make clear and accurate interpretations regarding the events of the chapters 5 and 6, (as Napoleon's dictatorship begins to emerge) and make appropriate links to individual characters and their allegorical relationship to context.

Even in his later works that depict the atrocities of war, allegorical still lifes, vivid interpretations of art - historical masterpieces, and his sensual canvases created during his twilight years, he continued to apply a reduction of colour.

His photographs address themes in common with the painter, including moody maritime nocturnes and allegorical interpretations of nature.

PART 2: LIGHT AND SHADOW The ESSAY «Light and Shadow» discusses... flicker films, Plato's allegory of the cave, H.P. Robinson's allegorical images, working with the absence of light, Tony Conrad's slow emulsions, photography as fairy magic and sun drawings, Adam Fuss's photograms, Hiroshi Sugimoto's feature - length exposures, Cai Guo - Qiang's explosions, light as cancerous radiation, light and shadow in city planning, contrast and lighting in works by Rineke Dijkstra, Jacob Riis, Weegee, Adrienne Salinger, and others, O. Winston Link's environmental light, darkness and light as metaphors for knowledge, morality, and power, pools of light in Expressionism, film noir, and works by Hans Bellmer, Esther Bubley, and Anna Gaskell, Group f / 64, available light in the work of Roy DeCarava, Yinka Shonibare's interpretation of Dorian Gray, public projected images, Indonesian shadow play, Gregory Barsamian's kinetic sculptures, flickering portraits by Christian Boltanski, Kara Walker's silhouettes, and more...