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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 1999
TL;DR: In 539 B.C.E. as mentioned in this paper, Darius I reaffirmed the decree of Cyrus and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple to continue, and the Temple was dedicated in 516 B.c.E., the king issued a decree that commanded the Jews to return home and rebuild the Temple.
Abstract: General Historical Outline. After Cyrus and the Persians conquered Babylon in 539 B.C.E., the king issued a decree that commanded the Jews, who had been exiled in 597 and 586, to return home and rebuild the Temple....Darius I reaffirmed the decree of Cyrus and ordered the rebuilding of the Temple to continue. The Temple was dedicated in 516 B.C.E....About fifty-eight years later, Artaxerxes I (465–424) sent Ezra, the priest and scribe of the law of the God of heaven, to Jerusalem. Within his first year Ezra led the people in a public confession of sin because of their intermarriage with foreigners and saw the creation of a commission that carried out the removal of the foreign wives and their children.

33 citations

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TL;DR: The claim of the Priestly writers that the Creator made human beings in the divine image is both audacious and ambiguous as discussed by the authors, assuming that among other things "image" means that human beings are able t...
Abstract: The claim of the Priestly writers that the Creator made human beings in the divine image is both audacious and ambiguous. Assuming that among other things “image” means that human beings are able t...

33 citations

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28 Aug 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a Trinitarian Theology of Revelation with a focus on the role of Scripture in the Divine Economy and every spiritual vision looks to the Mystery of Christ.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. 'The Messenger of Great Counsel': A Trinitarian Theology of Revelation 3. 'One Book Spoken through One Holy Spirit': The Spiritual Origin of Scripture 4. 'He Has Spoken to Us by His Son': The Christological Mediation of Scripture 5. 'The Evergreen Oracles of God': The Role of Scripture in the Divine Economy 6. 'Every Spiritual Vision Looks to the Mystery of Christ': The Theological Nature of Exegesis 7. 'The Whirlwind is in the Thorn Tree' Bibliography Index

32 citations


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