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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: In a recent essay as mentioned in this paper, Smith argues that canonical exegesis proceeds within an unavoidable dialectic of constraint and ingenuity, and that the constraint imposed by the canon is the simple fact of its existence-that just this set of texts is conventionally conceded to constitute an organizing medium for commerce with whatever is regarded as sacred.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the central thesis of the myth presented by Plotinus in his treatise On Love is explored, which is a narrative that divides and deploys over time structures differentiated only by their rank or powers.
Abstract: This paper explores the central thesis of the myth presented by Plotinus in his treatise On Love (III, 5 [50] 9, 24-29). Myth is a narrative that divides and deploys over time structures differentiated only by their “rank” or “powers”. First, the myth teaches, and then allows those who have understood it to “recompose” the data scattered through the discourse. The Hesiodic genealogy –Uranus, Kronos, Zeus– corresponds to the three main hypostases –the One, the Intelligence and the Soul. Likewise, the death and later dismemberment of child Dionysus symbolize the multiplicity and impassivity of sensible matter.
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TL;DR: In this long-standing tradition of prayerful reading, the divine words of the Bible were ruminated upon and literally 'tasted' with the heart as discussed by the authors, which contrasts instructively with the position of the Calvinist theologian Lambert Daneau (1530-95), who some three and a half centuries later was to suggest, to the contrary, that one should indeed search for'science' within the pages of scripture.
Abstract: In offering this advice on the reading of scripture, Cistercian monk Arnoul of Boheriss (fl. 1200) provides a useful example of the place of the bible in the meditative traditions of medieval monasticism. For Arnoul, scripture was studied not in order to confer knowledge (scientia) upon the reader; rather, the words of scripture were to be savoured and digested in such a way that they would provide the fertile subject matter for prayer and contemplation. In this long-standing tradition of prayerful reading — lexio divina — the divine words of scripture were ruminated upon and literally ‘tasted’ with the heart. Arnoul’s counsel, concerning the reading of scripture, contrasts instructively with the position of the Calvinist theologian Lambert Daneau (1530-95), who some three and a half centuries later was to suggest, to the contrary, that one should indeed search for ‘science’ within the pages of scripture. In his Physica Christiana (‘Christian Physics’, 1576), Daneau argued that the book of Genesis was a ‘Treatise of Naturall Philosophie’ penned by Moses. Daneau’s English translator went so far as to insist that all true natural philosophy was ‘founded uppon the assured round of Gods word and holy Scriptures’.2
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