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Exegesis

About: Exegesis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3017 publications have been published within this topic receiving 25212 citations. The topic is also known as: Bible interpretation.


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Grover A. Zinn1
TL;DR: This paper examined Hugh's criticism of the traditional exegesis and his positive contributions through the correlation of reason, auctoritas, and a fresh examination of the literal sense of Genesis VI.
Abstract: The treatise De area Noe morali by Hugh of St. Victor (d. 1141) contains a short but significant piece of literal exegesis concerning Noah's Ark. This seemingly slight example of Victorine exegesis is of considerable intrinsic merit for in it Hugh ventured to criticize an accepted exegetical “authority” and offered in its place his own interpretation of the passage. It is the purpose of this article to examine Hugh's criticism of the traditional exegesis and his positive contributions through the correlation of reason, auctoritas, and a fresh examination of the literal sense of Genesis VI.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the author provides some useful preliminaries for the purposes of a correct interpretation of Horace's attitude towards his own past as a soldier in the army of Caesar's assassins.
Abstract: in Horace. In the second part, I offer a contribution to the exegesis of a controversial passage. The aim of the first part is primarily to supply some useful preliminaries for the purposes of a correct interpretation of the passage, but I hope it may also be of some interest per se, as a contribution to a correct interpretation of Horace's attitude towards his own past as a soldier in the army of Caesar's assassins.

8 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the positivistic traits in the Barth legacy are raised once again, in order to open the door to Jurgen Habermas and other deconstructionist thinkers of the postmodern era in hermeneutics.
Abstract: Karl Barth’s hermeneutic legacy prolonged Western Christian tradition, especially influenced by Hegelian philosophy of history. This led to Barth’s “theological exegesis” instead of a historic-critical exegesis. In a preceding article Barth’s understanding of the notion “hermeneutic circle” is discussed against the background of the Enlightenment and its counter-movement in Romanticism. In this article Barth’s attitude to the place and role of historical criticism is explained in light of his dialectic distinction between “scientific” and “practical” interpretation. The article aims to show that Barth, with his dialectics, continues Schleiermacher’s realism. In conclusion, the positivistic traits in the Barth legacy are raised once again, in order to open the door to Jurgen Habermas and other deconstructionist thinkers of the postmodern era in hermeneutics.

8 citations

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TL;DR: The metarules used to understand the Vedic texts are not derived from the Veda itself and are rather rational rules which can be derived from use of language in general and which Mīmāṃsā authors recognized and analyzed as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Abstract This article provides a first investigation on the metarules adopted in the Mīmāṃsā school of textual exegesis. These are not systematically listed and discussed, but they can be seen at work throughout the history of Mīmāṃsā. The Mīmāṃsā school has the exegesis of the sacred texts called Veda as its main focus. The metarules used to understand the Vedic texts are, however, not derived from the Veda itself and are rather rational rules which can be derived from the use of language in general and which Mīmāṃsā authors recognized and analyzed. Since the metarules are considered to be not derived from the Veda, it is all but natural that later authors inspired by Mīmāṃsā apply them outside the precinct of the Veda, for instance in the fields of textual linguistics, poetics, theology and jurisprudence.

8 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023211
2022606
202127
202046
201963