Christ meets me everywhere: Augustine's early figurative exegesis

Introduction: Ask, seek, knock: approaching Augustine's figurative reading

Novice: rhetor, convert, seeker of wisdom (386-391). Eureka! In Milan: when Ambrose taught Augustine what he already knew ; A thousand words is worth a picture: the experiment of On Genesis, against the Manichees ; Enigma variations: playing hide-and-seek in the figurative reading framework ; Book binder: Christ the glue of scriptural unity

Journeyman: Priest, apprentice, student of Paul (391-396). Reading Moses in the school of St. Paul: the apostle and Christology 101 ; Hearing voices: Christ at prayer "in the psalm and on the cross"

Master: teacher, defender, pastor of souls (396-ca. 400). High and low on Jacob's ladder: reading scripture from both ends in On Christian teaching and On instructing beginners ; The Old Testament as the first book of the new: Augustine figures it out against Faustus the Manichee

Epilogue: The astounding exchange.