nastya ’s Reviews > A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years > Status Update

"In viewing the biblical text in this way Origen followed Clement in relishing the use of an ‘allegorical’ method of understanding the meaning of literary texts, which by then had a long history in Greek scholarship. This is how learned Greeks had read Homer and how learned Alexandrian Jews like Philo had read the Tanakh."

This feels wrong to me, personally. I feel like you should commit to your sacred texts.