What is history and how does it impact biblical interpretation and theology? Allegorizing History begins to answer this question by arguing that conceptions of the past and the purposes of history affect biblical interpretation and vice versa. Invoking Constantin Fasolt's notion of history as 'a knowledge of the past, as well as the technique by which such knowledge is produced', and re-fashioning Erich Auerbach's historical enterprise in 'Figura' (1938), Furry contends that the understanding and practice of historical writing is inevitably affected by philosophy and theology, thereby rendering all history as figural or allegorical. Famous for his 'Ecclesiastical History of the Anglo-Saxon People' and biblical commentaries, the Venerable Bede is studied in dialogue with Augustine of Hippo, contemporary theology, and historical theory to make this interdisciplinary argument. Timothy J. Furry (PhD, University of Dayton) is Instructor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain at...

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