Editing Allegory (section)

==Biblical allegory==
Other early allegories are found in the [[Hebrew Bible]], such as the extended metaphor in [[Psalm 80]] of the [[Grapevine|vine]] and its impressive spread and growth, representing Israel's conquest and population of the Promised Land.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kennedy | first=George A. |date=1999 |title=Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times |edition=2nd |publisher=UNC Press |page=142 |isbn=0-8078-4769-0 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LHHYx4idyPEC&pg=PA142 |access-date=7 August 2009}}</ref> Also allegorical is [[Ezekiel]] 16 and 17, wherein the capture of that same vine by the mighty Eagle represents Israel's exile to Babylon.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Alexander |date=1968 |title=The Jerusalem Bible |edition=Reader's |publisher=Doubleday & Company |pages=[https://archive.org/details/jerusalembiblere00gard/page/1186 1186, 1189] |isbn=0-385-01156-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/jerusalembiblere00gard/page/1186 }}</ref>

[[Hermeneutics#Allegorical|Allegorical interpretation of the Bible]] was a common early Christian practice and continues. For example, the recently re-discovered Fourth Commentary on the Gospels by [[Fortunatianus of Aquileia]] has a comment by its English translator: "The principal characteristic of Fortunatianus' exegesis is a figurative approach, relying on a set of concepts associated with key terms in order to create an allegorical decoding of the text."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fortunatianus Aquileiensis |url=https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783110516371/9783110516371-003/9783110516371-003.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783110516371/9783110516371-003/9783110516371-003.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |title=Commentary on the Gospels: English translation and introduction |year=2017 |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-051637-1 |doi=10.1515/9783110516371 |page=XIX}}</ref>