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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 2009
TL;DR: Turner-Rahman et al. this article, Ph.D., et al., this article proposed a novel approach to solve the problem of gender discrimination in the workplace, and
Abstract: By Israt Turner-Rahman, Ph.D. Washington State University

13 citations

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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: Mimetic devotions to the Virgin Mary and Christ developed in western Europe from the late eleventh century as discussed by the authors, where the Song of Songs became a vehicle for mimetic re-creation of the Virgin and Christ's most intimate conversations, and understood both as history and as prophecy.
Abstract: "Mimetic Devotion, Marian Exegesis, and the Historical Sense of the Song of Songs." This article argues that the Marian commentaries on the Song of Songs by Honorius Augustudonensis, Rupert of Deutz, Philip of Harvengt, Alan of Lille, William of Newburgh, and Alexander Neckham ought to be considered among the principal indices of the new affective devotion to the Virgin Mary and Christ that developed in western Europe from the late eleventh century. With its origin in the liturgies for the feasts of the Assumption and the Nativity of the Virgin, rather than in the patristic tradition of ecclesiological and tropological exegesis, the Marian sense of the Song was identified with a historical level of interpretation according to which the commentator could transcend time and imagine himself in the sensible presence of the Virgin and Christ. Accordingly, the Song became a vehicle for the mimetic re-creation of the Virgin and Christ's most intimate conversations, and understood both as history and as prophecy,...

13 citations

Book
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: Boynton and Reilly as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between the Bible and the Liturgy in the early Middle Ages, and the meaning of history in the context of monasticism in the Middle Ages.
Abstract: ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. Orientation for the ReaderSusan Boynton and Diane J. Reilly2. The Bible and the LiturgySusan Boynton3. Bibles, Biblical Books, and the Monastic Liturgy in the Early Middle AgesRichard Gyug4. When Monks Were the Book: The Bible and Monasticism (6th-11th Centuries)Isabelle Cochelin5. The Bible and the Meaning of HistoryJennifer A. Harris6. Lectern Bibles and Liturgical Reform in the Central Middle AgesDiane J. Reilly7. The Italian Giant BiblesLila Yawn8. Biblical Exegesis Through the Twelfth CenturyFrans van Liere9. Mendicant School ExegesisBert Roest10. "A Ladder Set Up on Earth": The Bible in Medieval SermonsEyal Poleg11. The Bible and the Individual: The Thirteenth-Century Paris BibleLaura Light12. The Illustrated Psalter: Luxury and Practical UseStella Panayotova13. The Bible in English in the Middle AgesRichard Marsden14. The Old French Bible: The First Complete Vernacular Bible in Western EuropeClive R. Sneddon15. Castilian Vernacular Bibles in Iberia, c. 1250-1500Emily C. FrancomanoGlossaryContributorsIndex

13 citations


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2023211
2022606
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202046
201963