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Created page with "Regarding the modern midrashic, literary, figural-symbolic, pattern-based hermeneutical renaissance, ScholarGPT wishes to note that "Your project hinges on this distinction, … Many critics of “allegory” are actually reacting to the right column, not the left." {| class="wikitable" ! Feature ! Legitimate figural / midrashic ! Problematic allegory |- | Trigger | textual features | external ideas |- | Constraint | intra-canonical | conceptual imposition |- | Patt..."

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Regarding [[the modern midrashic, literary, figural-symbolic, pattern-based hermeneutical renaissance]], ScholarGPT wishes to note that "Your project hinges on this distinction, … Many critics of “allegory” are actually reacting to the right column, not the left."

{| class="wikitable"
! Feature
! Legitimate figural / midrashic
! Problematic allegory
|-
| Trigger
| textual features
| external ideas
|-
| Constraint
| intra-canonical
| conceptual imposition
|-
| Pattern
| recurring
| ad hoc
|-
| Stability
| referentially anchored
| fluid
|}

Legitimate versus problematic figuralism - Revision history