He is worried about a literary culture in which the “biographical will triumph over the exegetic.”. From Wordnik.com. [Argument and monologue] Reference
From the outside, it really does seem that a review of terminology and of exegetic practice is in order. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY.] Reference
Aramaicisms — whether these are words or peculiar speech patterns — is of considerable exegetic significance. From Wordnik.com. [Who Do Men Say That I Am?] Reference
This exegetic attention is based on the conception that views Ruth as primarily the great-grandmother of King David, which is the source of her exalted status. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
According to another exegetic tradition, she told him: “I am one of those women who receives her gifts the hard way, like Sarah and the other righteous women” (Midrash Samuel 2: 11). From Wordnik.com. [Hannah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
Glied professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, and currently on leave as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), analysed Reinhardt's and many other studies, in a ground breaking exegetic survey of health care. From Wordnik.com. [Stephan A. Schwartz: Benjamin Franklin And a Modern American Portrait of Physical Health and Hunger] Reference
It is possibly the finest product of the French exegetic school. From Wordnik.com. [Rashi]
Eighty-three Departments, with exegetic commentary, short but pithy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Geiger 158 won a name for himself by his studies on the French exegetic school. From Wordnik.com. [Rashi]
Now the passages which require exegetic manipulation are in general those which seem opposed to reason. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Finally, that strain of belief is almost always associated with the traditions of heavy biblical research and exegetic teaching (exposition through logic). From Wordnik.com. [The Rebel Yell] Reference
It is still more important to see how the Alexandrian theologians (Clement and Origen) estimated the exegetic labours of the Gnostics, and took account of them. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)] Reference
According to my teachers, even the Oral Law, the commentary that makes the written Torah intelligible, was deduced by the sages according to definite exegetic principles also given at Sinai. From Wordnik.com. [Aish Weekly Articles] Reference
The Hexaemeron was added as being the most noted and popular of St. Basil's compositions in older days, and as illustrating his exegetic method and skill, and his power as an extempore preacher. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
In the third century Origen took refuge at Caesarea, and wrote there many of his exegetic and theological works, among others the famous "Hexapla", the manuscript of which was for a long time preserved in the episcopal library of that city. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
His critics had it their own way in this, for he had not lived to offer that full exposition of his theory and justification of his purpose which he had been expected to give on the Sunday after he was killed; and his death was in no wise exegetic. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference
Pastoral theology presupposes other various branches; accepts the apologetic, dogmatic, exegetic, moral, juridical, ascetical, liturgical, and other conclusions reached by the ecclesiastical student, and scientifically applies these various conclusions to the priestly ministry. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
OF REVELATIONS, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named HISTORY; to which inspired Texts your numerous talented men, and your innumerable untalented men, are the better or worse exegetic Commentaries, and wagonload of too-stupid, heretical or orthodox, weekly Sermons. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
Rivke bas Me’ir’s literary talents are reflected in the stringent composition, precise wording and richly varied presentations of exegetic-homiletic passages, narratives and moral teaching, as well as in real or fictitious accounts of personal experience. From Wordnik.com. [Rivke Bas Me���ir Tiktiner.] Reference
Augsburg, 1721-9), a collection of exegetic, theological, philosophical, ascetic, and historical literary sources; "Bibliotheca ascetica" (12 vols. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
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