As far as I am concerned, Peter Leithart and Lewis Ayres are two of the sharper tools in the shed.  Both are fine scholars and have done wonderful work.  Leithart reports on a recent conference where Lewis Ayres (of the University of Durham) argued in a paper that the early church fathers were not necessarily being "innovative" when they used allegorical interpretation.  On the contrary, suggests Ayres (and here I am simply relying on Leithart's report), allegorical interpretation was already around.  The early church fathers--against the backrop of widespread allegorical interpretation--actually insisted on more of a "literal" interpretation than was the norm at the time.  I look forward to reading Ayres' paper.  Leithart's post is at his web site here.

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