In this paper we want to investigate two notions of the cardinality of relations in the context of allegories. The different axiom systems are motivated on the existence of injective and surjective functions, respectively. In both cases we provide a canonical cardinality function and show that it is initial in the category of all cardinality functions over the given allegory.

In Late Antiquity a series of ideas emerges that adds a kind of buoyancy to allegorism. Readers' impulses toward other regions of knowledge begin to flow more consistently upward, drawn by various metaphysical currents that guide and support them. A whole manner of Platonist-inspired architectures structure the cosmos in the early centuries of the Common Era, among thinkers as diverse as the we...

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Abstract In this essay I make three arguments on Ezek 23:3–4: first, “in Egypt … in their youth” (v. 3) does not refer to Israel’s time before the exodus, but early political histories of Samaria and Jerusalem. Second, statement ותהיינה לי 4) should be rendered “and they became mine” (referring event marriage), rather were fact marriage). Third, vocabulary used vv. 3–4 functions at local level ...