- A parable can be viewed as an allegory miniaturised, just as an allegory can be viewed as a manifold of metaphors extended into narrative.
ALLEGORY IS A hinge that lets us swing from one plane of meaning to
another. This, as the image suggests, goes both ways. We can convert the
unknown into the known, allegorise it into the recognisable landscape
of our own mythology, or we can discover meanings in the text to which
our intellectual world made us previously blind. The technique of
reading the Old Testament typologically permitted Christians to see in
the Hebrew Scripture a series of promises of the coming of Christ. This
was an allegorical reading Talmudists found perverse
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