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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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TL;DR: La Peyrere's work on the Bible resembles that of his later contemporaries Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and his friend Richard Simon, all of whom his writings may have influenced as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Isaac La Peyrere is one of the most important and yet little-known seventeenth-century intellectuals involved in developing modern biblical criticism. His work on the Bible resembles that of his later contemporaries Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and La Peyrere's friend Richard Simon, all of whom his writings may have influenced. Through his attempt to get behind the biblical texts and his use of comparative extra-biblical historical literature from across the globe, La Peyrere's methods attempted to mould biblical exegesis into historical criticism. His social and political context in seventeenth-century France during the reign of King Louis xiv provides an important glimpse into the historical background that shaped La Peyrere's thought and project. At its core, La Peyrere's work was not scholarship for its own sake, but was politically motivated. His exegesis entailed an elaborate theo-political messianic vision, which his historical method was an attempt to bolster. La Peyrere's biblical exegesis was in service of his French apocalyptic messianic vision, the heart of which supported the political designs of his employer, the Prince of Conde.

6 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show how Genesis 38, the story of Tamar and Judah, is not the erratic block within the Joseph story that generations of commentators have believed, but can be read as perfectly well integrated into its narrative context.
Abstract: One of the common features of "final form" exegesis is an interest in reading holistically, that is, reading the text in its final form as an aesthetic or communicative unity. Robert Alter has tried to show how Genesis 38, the story of Tamar and Judah, is not the erratic block within the Joseph story that generations of commentators have believed, but can be read as perfectly well integrated into its narrative context. In 38:26 Judah "recognized" ( wayyaker ) the objects he had left with Tamar. Midrash Bereshith Rabbah comment does assist in reading the text of Genesis holistically. But in general this kind of rabbinic technique is not really an example of holism, but more of a concern for intertextuality. The current conjunction between "final form" exegesis and "holistic" interpretation is accidental rather than necessary. Rabbinic interpretation clearly shows that it is possible for the two to be dissociated. Keywords: Bereshith Rabbah; final form exegesis; Genesis 38; intertextuality; rabbinic interpretation; Tamar and Judah

6 citations

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25 Jun 2008
TL;DR: In this article, an inquiry drawing on the presence of Hellenistic philosophy in Philo provides a better knowledge of the diffusion of Hellenic philosophy since the late Republican age, as well as the relationship between Philo's reception and other doxohraphical tradition.
Abstract: An inquiry drawing on the presence of Hellenistic philosophy in Philo provides a better knowledge of the diffusion of Hellenistic philosophy since the late Republican age, as well as the relationship between Philo’s reception and other doxohraphical tradition.

6 citations


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