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Paul’s Use of “Allegory” in Galatians 4:21 to Galatians 5:1 - A Method of Interpretation?

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  • R. Dean Anderson

Paul uses the word 'allegory' in Galatians 5:24. Does this mean that the allegorical method of Scripture interpretation is therefore an acceptable or good hermeneutical method?

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Song of Songs and its Interpretation

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  • Heinrich M. Ohmann

How shall we interpret the Song of Songs? This article discusses ways in which it has been interpreted—as allegory, drama, a collection of wedding songs, and a cultic book—and then suggests how it should be interpreted, as a manual for those engaged on their way to marriage.

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Bunyan's Departure from Preaching

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  • Harry L. Poe

Is preaching the sole means for presenting the gospel in evangelism? This article shows how John Bunyan defended his use of allegory in his Pilgrim's Progress to confront people with the claims of the gospel on their lives.

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The Rhetorical Strategy of Galatians 4:21-5:1

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  • Andrew C. Perriman

This article contends that many misunderstandings of Paul's use of allegory in Galatians 4:21-Galatians 5:1 are the result of Paul's argumentative strategy. Perriman suggests that the allegory is meant only to show the applicability of the command to throw out the slave woman and her son to the Galatian situation.

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Church & Scripture 1

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  • Peter J. Wallace

The practice of seeing and reading Scripture through the redemptive-historical approach is one that finds its root in the Bible. This article looks at how the apostles read through redemptive-historical eyes, and how the church fathers continued in this practice. It also discusses the place of typology and allegory in interpreting the Bible.

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Justin Martyr's Use of the Old Testament

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  • David E. Aune

Justin Martyr has the honour of being the first comprehensive Christian interpreter of the Old Testament. What was Justin's exegetical method? Aune indicates the gap between the New Testament's use of the Old and the exegesis in early patristic literature. The further Justin departed from the New Testament exegetical tradition, the closer he got to allegory.

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Figures of Speech in Human Language

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  • C. F. Pfeiffer

Hermeneutics should not be divorced from the study of language in general. The Bible is written in human language by men who used the language conventions of the day. This essay focuses on the way in which figures of speech and figurative language function in texts. The author notes similes, metaphors, allegory, metonymy, irony, and so on.

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Eden, the Temple, and the Church’s Mission in the New Creation

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  • Gregory K. Beale

This lecture reflects on hermeneutical issues related to the New Testament's use of the Old. The author uses Revelation 21:1–Revelation 22:5 as a case study, where passages like Ezekiel 37:27, Ezekiel 40-Ezekiel 50, and Isaiah 54:11-12 are used.

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Felled by "Good Pleasure"

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  • Jules Grisham

The Second Council of Constantinople anathematized the literal historical approach of interpreting Scripture associated with the School of Antioch as the breeder of heresy, while the council embraced allegory as the proper method of interpretation. This article looks at the historical account of these events.

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