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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 the early centuries of Islam, the Bible did not usually receive specific attention from Muslim polemicists as mentioned in this paper, and some rejected the text on the grounds that it was corrupt, and developed accounts of how the original injil had been lost and replaced by the canonical Gospels.
Abstract: During the early centuries of Islam, the Bible did not usually receive specific attention from Muslim polemicists. Among those who did refer to it, some rejected the text on the grounds that it was corrupt, and developed accounts of how the original injil had been lost and replaced by the canonical Gospels. The majority, however, have left no expressed view, but do not appear to have experienced difficulty in employing suitable verses in their arguments as illustrations and proofs. A few scholars were in a position to use the Biblical texts to good effect in their arguments. The Christian convert cAli b. Rabban al‐Tabari employed a distinctively Muslim method of exegesis, and demonstrated how predictions of the coming of Muhammad and Islam are scattered throughout the biblical books. The Zaydi theologian al‐Qasim ibn Ibrahim al‐Rassi followed a more radical method in translating parts of Matthew's Gospel into Arabic, and altering words and phrases and omitting sections in order to make the origin...

53 citations

Book
01 Jul 2000
TL;DR: The material culture of the Bible: An Introduction, by Ferdinand E. Deist as mentioned in this paper is an anthropological study of the Hebrew language and its relationship to the culture of ancient Israel.
Abstract: The Material Culture of the Bible: An Introduction, by Ferdinand E. Deist. Edited by Robert P. Carroll. The Biblical Seminar 70. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. Pp. 348. $29.95 paper. Ferdinand Deist, who was Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Stellenbosh in South Africa, died unexpectedly in July of 1997, leaving the manuscript of the book, which lacked a conclusion. Robert Carroll edited the manuscript and wrote the Foreword, but he also died unexpectedly in May of 2000. Philip R. Davies of the University of Sheffield brought the book to completion in May of 2000, chiefly editing ch. 7. Deist sought to establish a cultural framework within which to discuss biblical texts. Another goal was to wed interpretive methods in biblical research to anthropological constructions of "ancient Israel." His hope was that the contribution of anthropology to biblical exegesis might thus be interpreted and evaluated (p. 21). Deist sought to accomplish this by formalizing biblical scholars' cultural awareness of the Israelites. His method was to analyze biblical references to material culture in the light of an anthropological theory of culture. His method was emphatically not to analyze archaeological reports to deduce the material culture of ancient Israel and from that to infer the political organization, economics, and religion of the Israelites. Deist's explicitly stated first principle is that, since language is part of a culture, it is impossible for outsiders to grasp biblical speech forms and content without a systematic knowledge of the culture or cultures in question. Thus the interpreter of the Bible in whole or in part simply cannot do without knowledge of the material culture of the Bible or without a cultural framework in which to understand biblical utterances. Deist organized the work in nine chapters. Chapter 1, "Culture and Interpretation," engages in the debate on anthropological meanings of "culture" in general and of "biblical culture" in particular. Deist reminds the reader that in effect one constructs the culture of the Israelites as he or she studies it. On the other hand one may not simply fantasize about it either, but construct as best one can from the biblical text. The first issue one must deal with is whether the biblical text reflects the culture of an author projected back on earlier eras. Deist posits six reasons why the hypothesis of the "Persian fiction" fails to account for the narratives, and therefore why one may expect to find genuine memories from the twelfth to the eighth centuries B.C.E. embedded in the narratives. The remaining chapters can be summarized briefly. In ch. 2 Deist outlines five theories of culture, namely, the increasingly popular anthropological views: evolutionary (explaining change), structuralist (focused on languages and meaning), structural-- functionalist (stressing coherence), configurationalist (semantics and values), and ethnohistorical (folklore) approaches. Deist opts for a combination of configurationalist and evolutionary approaches to construct a culture of ancient Israel. Chapter 3, a brief essay on culture, language, and meaning contains Deist's theory of the relation of biblical meanings to biblical culture. Here he discusses linguistic meanings in terms of the cultures of the biblical authors, the structures of the Hebrew language, and inferred customs and values of those authors. Chapter 4, "Environment and Meaning," examines how Israel resorted to elements from the natural environment to construct the images, metaphors, and similes so dear to the exegete's "heart." Likewise ch. 5 on economy and meaning does the same for the socioeconomic world of the biblical writers. Chapter 6, devoted to technology and meaning, places at least six types of technology in the foreground of the biblical interpretation of language elements drawn from technology. Chapter 7, on social organization and meaning, briefly surveys and develops Israel's cultural descriptions in the Bible and sketches how this affects language about God. …

53 citations

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TL;DR: The study of Hiberno-Latin exegesis of the Bible by Irishmen writing in Latin is a young medieval discipline as mentioned in this paper, and it deals almost exclusively with texts from Irish circles on the continent because so few texts survive from Ireland itself.
Abstract: The study of Hiberno-Latin exegesis is a young medieval discipline. As the name suggests, it deals with the exegesis of the Bible by Irishmen writing in Latin. In practice, this discipline is confined to the period from the coming of Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century to the Carolingian Renaissance in the ninth. Furthermore, it deals almost exclusively with texts from Irish circles on the continent because so few texts survive from Ireland itself. Scholars had long known of Irish exegetes like Sedulius Scottus and Aileran the Wise who were usually well-known or at least unquestionably Irish. The works of many Hiberno-Latin exegetes simply languished in anonymity — until 1954.

52 citations


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2023211
2022606
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