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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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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The first ten books of the Confessions of St. Augustine are described in detail in this paper, where the author describes a life of describing a life and a conversion of the prophet.
Abstract: Part I. Augustine's World: 1. Africa: world politics 2. Thagaste: family, church and school 3. Carthage: rhetoric and religion 4. Africa to Italy: Manichees and pagans 5. Milan: worldly success and renunciation 6. Return to Africa: monks and bishops Part II. Genre: Describing a Life: 7. 'The first ten books are about me ...' 8. 'I want to know all about you' 9. Spiritual biography Part III. True Confessions? Narrative and Memory: 10. What really happened? 11. Multiple readings and exegesis 12. Narrative and memory 13. Telling stories 14. Augustine's conversion Part IV. Speaking the Truth: Rhetoric and Style: 15. Sermo humilis and variation of style 16. Intertexts: Bible, classical culture and philosophy 17. Hearing the Confessions Part V. Finding Meanings: Augustine at Carthage Part VI. Reading The Confessions.

43 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 May 2006
TL;DR: In 1540, John Calvin published his first commentary on the Bible, an interpretation of St. Paul's letter to the Romans, and joined a lively conversation that had been taking place in the Christian church ever since its inception as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: When John Calvin published in 1540 his first commentary on the Bible, an interpretation of St. Paul's letter to the Romans, he joined a lively conversation that had been taking place in the Christian church ever since its inception. Paul's letter was itself a kind of commentary, a reinterpretation of stories and songs from the Old Testament, especially from Genesis and the book of Psalms. Paul was convinced that these ancient Hebrew writings had taken on a new meaning as a result of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. His reinterpretation of older biblical traditions was itself reinterpreted by such stalwarts of the early church as Origen, Augustine, and John Chrysostom. Medieval interpreters repeated and revised these early insights and added their own, many of which were preserved in such standard exegetical works as the Glossa ordinaria and the Postilla of Nicholas of Lyra. By 1540 there was a substantial body of literature on Romans, including several recent works by Calvin's contemporaries. Aspiring commentators, confronted by this body of exegetical literature, might well have been forgiven if they had wondered whether there was anything fresh to say about Romans. Calvin concluded there was, but not before he had read a generous sample of the exegetical tradition, including the impressive commentaries by Philip Melanchthon, Heinrich Bullinger, and Martin Bucer.

43 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
Jeremy Cohen1
TL;DR: The RSV is the basis of the common belief that, at the end of the world, the Jews will return to the faith as mentioned in this paper, but it is so obscure that, unless one is willing to accept the judgment of the fathers who expound the apostle in this way, no one can obtain a clear conviction from this text.
Abstract: Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, brethren: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles come in, and so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.”Paul, Romans 11:25–26I have generally adhered to the RSV except where the wording of biblical quotations in the works of patristic or medieval authors mandates otherwise. Citations of chapter and verse in the Hebrew Bible, however, generally follow the numbering in the Masoretic Text.This text is the basis of the common opinion that, at the end of the world, the Jews will return to the faith. However, it is so obscure that, unless one is willing to accept the judgment of the fathers who expound the apostle in this way, no one can, so it would seem, obtain a clear conviction from this text.Luther, Lectures on RomansMartin Luther, Scholien—Epistola ad Romanos (vol. 56 of Werke; Weimar: H. Bohlaus Nachf, 1883–1983) 436–37; Martin Luther, Lectures on Romans (trans. Wilhem Pauck; Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1961) 315.

42 citations


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