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.

Reforming the imagination

Abstract: This is a study of some literary aspects of English thinking during the eighty years from Elizabeth's Settlement of religion to the Civil Wars. The central thesis is that there is a shift in the images the English Protestant mind uses for its own acquisition of knowledge: from images of public and visible entities, lit by the ubiquitous sunlight of authority and reason, to images of direct cognisance by the self, lit by internal Promethean light. As this image of inner light is primarily an image of reading, there is an imaginative, and thus exegetical, identification of the inspired reader with the meaning or Voice' within the text. This identification is exploited by the more radical Protestants, the party in favour of further reform, to rebut the negative aspersions of scepticism, and the positive aspersions of Catholic polemic; especially in poetry that means to vindicate the truths of Protestant dogma, which is notionally read from the Bible, by replicating and extending the experience of inspired reading. Protestants are ambivalent about the legitimacy of such 'divine' literature, but nevertheless Nosce teipsum, New Atlantis, Sidney's Arcadia, Paradise Lost and even Robinson Crusoe are shown to employ this Protestant mode of inspired defence. In the first of three parts, English Reformation uses of the word imagination are distinguished, and the Protestant faculty of inspiration is shown to be a function of the secondary imagination. Part II discusses the Protestant ambivalence about human artifice on the edge of Scripture; such artifice is necessary to make the Bible work as Protestantism wants, but its existence compromises the Bible's character as a self-sufficient and self-interpreting oracle. This dilemma is demonstrated in the actions of English iconoclasm, and in English attitudes to illustrations of the Bible, Bible translation, and authoritative exegesis. In Part III, this same ambivalence is apparent in the theory and practice of literature, as evidenced by the writings of Jewel, Whitaker, Sidney, Greville, Hooker, Bacon, Sir John Davies, and Milton.

The Epistle to the Galatians: a commentary on the Greek text

Abstract: F.F. Bruce's study on the Epistle to the Galations is a contribution to The New International Greek Testament Commentary, a series based on the UBS Greek New Testament, which strives to provide thorough exegesis of the text that is sensitive to theological themes as well as to the details of historical, linguistic, and textual context.

Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture

Abstract: Singing the Ethos of God: On the Place of Christian Ethics in Scripture , Brian Brock , Eerdmans Publishing , 2007 ( ISBN 978‐0‐8028‐0379‐5 ), vii + 386 pp., pb $34.00 What Brian Brock has given us in Singing the Ethos of God is nothing less than one of the finest treatments of scripture‐based ethics published in quite sometime. Critiquing what he deems an estrangement between biblical scholarship and the work of Christian ethicists, Brock seeks to ‘reframe the whole Bible and ethics discussion’ by connecting moral theology with an ‘analysis of the practices of the Christian exegetical tradition’ (p. xiv). In Singing the Ethos of God , Brock argues for the ‘world creating’ capability of scripture that transforms the Bible and ethics discussion in terms of the question, ‘What role does the Bible play in God's generation of a holy people?’ (p. xvii). Brian Brock formulates his project in three sections. The first section explores the hermeneutical question ‘gleaning insights into methodological options from the contemporary discussion [of Scripture's role in ethics]’ (p. xvii). The second section draws upon the historical exegesis of the Psalms by Augustine and Martin Luther in an effort to challenge the commonly

From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala

Abstract: Introduction: Kabbala, New Historicism, and the Question of Boundaries The Lurianic Myth: A Playbill 1. Genesis "And Adam's Sin Was (Very) Great": Original Sin in Lurianic Exegesis 2. Exodus The "Other" Israel: The Erev Rav (Mixed Multitude) as Conversos 3. Leviticus The Sin of Becoming a Woman: Male Homosexuality and the Castration Complex 4. Numbers Balaam, Moses, and the Prophecy of the "Other": A Lurianic Vision for the Erasure of Difference 5. Deuteronomy The Human and/as God: Divine Incarnation and the "Image of God" Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index