His hermeneutical and exegetical activities were remarkable. From Wordnik.com. [Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers] Reference
In yet a third exegetical notion, Ishmael engaged in bloodshed. From Wordnik.com. [Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
The eschatological discourse presents serious exegetical difficulties. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference
These things may be the same, and the latter exegetical of the former. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
MR. MCCURRY: Beyond the exegetical analysis that Mr. Panetta just gave?. From Wordnik.com. [Mccurry Briefing] Reference
These two exegetical positions derive the word “akarah” from “ikar.”. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
And nobody wants to have exegetical debates on the Senate floor about Leviticus. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 14, 2007] Reference
This ambiguity has created one of the most important bodies of exegetical literature. From Wordnik.com. [CATHARSIS] Reference
In another exegetical tradition, Hagar was born to Pharaoh from one of his concubines. From Wordnik.com. [Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
The third and following verses, as well as the next Psalm, are exegetical or illustrative. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc] Reference
According to one exegetical tradition, Jacob did not prefer Rachel to Leah from the outset. From Wordnik.com. [Leah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
It was these exegetical methods that excited the unbounded admiration of his fellow-rabbis. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Attributed to the legendary minister Feng Hou, with exegetical notes by Kung-sun Hung of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
According to one exegetical view, that day Sarah saw the first signs of her menstrual period. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
In the exegetical explanation, Leah said: “Luck came to the house, luck came to the world.”. From Wordnik.com. [Leah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
We are not left, however, to an exegetical statement alone, although that is absolutely unequivocal. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism] Reference
As I have said, this does nothing to settle the exegetical questions fiercely debated at the moment. From Wordnik.com. ['The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture] Reference
It is almost entirely free from critical and exegetical difficulties: he may run who reads its lesson. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
In another exegetical tradition, Jacob placed Rachel and Joseph last because he wanted to protect them. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
Southern, J.W. Roberts and Thomas H. Olbricht, who gave me valuable experience in the exegetical method of study. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Heaven: An Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews] Reference
Yet another exegetical tradition explains that Zipporah differed from other women in her deeds (BT Moed Katan 16b). From Wordnik.com. [Zipporah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
They present in typical and instructive forms the most varied problems, textual, exegetical, doctrinal, and historical. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Lastly, he had the misfortune, as it proved later, to differ profoundly on exegetical points from a veteran Professor of. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
If an ascetic interpretive rigor is one main source of pleasure in allegory, exegetical intricacy is the vice of the mode. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
This exegetical direction is supported by the divine aid she received in the miraculous concealment of the idols from Laban. From Wordnik.com. [Rachel: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
The art of Derashah thus comprises the scholarly-intellectual, the ethical, the exegetical, the aesthetic, and the poetical. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Midrash] Reference
According to one Rabbinic exegetical tradition, it was given this name because Jacob sat and wept over the death of his nurse Deborah. From Wordnik.com. [Deborah 1: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
A strong exegetical tradition, intended to console as well as to explain, addressed the question, “Why were the matriarchs barren?”. From Wordnik.com. [Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.] Reference
“Latet anguis” also in the adding “grass” of that exegetical term “pre-ordinated,” — predestinated, that is, pre-ordinated. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
Another exegetical tradition lists Sarah among the seven women prophets, the others being Miriam, Deborah, Hannah, Abigail, Huldah and Esther. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
It would be idle to attempt to summarize the technical arguments advanced by each side in support of conflicting views on doctrinal or exegetical problems. From Wordnik.com. [Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment] Reference
What makes this exegetical exercise interesting is that Barack Obama chose the passage for the epigraph of his first book, the 1995 "Dreams From My Father.". From Wordnik.com. [More a Matter of Mystery than Magic] Reference
Another exegetical tradition places Miriam next to Zipporah when Moses was told (Num. 11: 27) that “Eldad and Medad are acting the prophet in the camp!”. From Wordnik.com. [Zipporah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
This exegetical account clears Jael of any blame, and emphatically declares that nothing happened between her and Sisera when she brought him into her tent. From Wordnik.com. [Jael Wife of Heber The Kenite: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
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