Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria - Hardcoverby David Dawson (Author) Allegorical readings of literary or religious texts always begin as counterreadings, starting with denial or negation, challenging the literal sense: "You have read the text this way, but I will read it differently." David Dawson insists that ancient allegory is best understood not simply as a way of reading texts, but as a way of using non literal readings to reinterpret culture and society. Here he describes how some ancient