Matthieu Pageau's 2018 work arguing that the Bible uses a consistent symbolic language rooted in patterns of center and periphery, hierarchy, and sacrifice that structure all meaning-making. Proposes that Genesis, properly read symbolically, reveals a universal grammar of reality.
Provides a systematic account of biblical symbolism as a coherent language rather than merely literary metaphor, drawing on iconographic tradition and Orthodox Christian theology.
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