Legitimate versus problematic figuralism

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."

Feature	Legitimate figural / midrashic	Problematic allegory
Trigger	textual features	external ideas
Constraint	intra-canonical	conceptual imposition
Pattern	recurring	ad hoc
Stability	referentially anchored	fluid