Exegesis is the study and analysis of what?
"The Midrash is a homiletic method of exegesis and a compilation of homiletic teachings or commentaries on the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), a biblical exegesis of the Pentateuch and its paragraphs related to the Law or Torah, which also forms an object of analysis. It comprises the legal and ritual Halakha, the collective body of Jewish laws, and exegesis of the written Law; and the non-legalistic Aggadah, a compendium of Rabbinic homilies of the parts of the Pentateuch not connected with Law. Biblical interpretation by the Tannaim and the Amoraim, which may be best designated as scholarly interpretations of the Midrash,"
"Eisegesis Eisegesis () is the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text. This is commonly referred to as ""reading into"" the text. The act is often used to ""prove"" a pre-held point of concern to the reader and to provide him or her with confirmation bias in accordance with his or her pre-held agenda. Eisegesis is best understood when contrasted with ""exegesis"". While exegesis is the process of drawing out the meaning from a text in accordance with the"
"can often be difficult, especially for books which were written anonymously. Eisegesis Eisegesis () is the process of interpreting a text or portion of text in such a way that the process introduces one's own presuppositions, agendas, or biases into and onto the text. This is commonly referred to as ""reading into"" the text. The act is often used to ""prove"" a pre-held point of concern to the reader and to provide him or her with confirmation bias in accordance with his or her pre-held agenda. Eisegesis is best understood when contrasted with ""exegesis"". While exegesis is the process of"
"exegesis is an attempt to determine the historical context within which a particular verse exists—the so-called ""Sitz im Leben"" or life setting—eisegetes often neglect this aspect of Biblical study. In the field of Biblical exegesis, scholars take great care to avoid eisegesis. In this field, eisegesis is regarded as ""poor exegesis"". In the field of ""biblical proof texts"", Christian theologians and missionaries are often accused of practicing eisegesis using isolated, out-of-context quotations from the Christian Bible to establish a proposition or to read Christ into the Hebrew Bible. While some denominations and scholars denounce Biblical eisegesis, many Christians are known"
"Hermeneutics Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Modern hermeneutics includes both verbal and non-verbal communication as well as semiotics, presuppositions, and pre-understandings. Hermeneutics has been broadly applied in the humanities, especially in law, history and theology. Hermeneutics was initially applied to the interpretation, or exegesis, of scripture, and has been later broadened to questions of general interpretation. The terms ""hermeneutics"" and ""exegesis"" are sometimes used interchangeably. Hermeneutics is a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication. Exegesis focuses primarily upon the word and grammar"
"one can approach the Bible on a line-by-line-precept-by-precept basis, and cross-reference Scripture effectively. Exegesis, as defined by Thieme, involves studying the grammar, syntax, and etymology of the original languages of Scripture, so that one is not relying on intermediate translations which may obscure or lose meanings. Through the ICE method, Thieme sought to accurately communicate the truths of the Bible. Thieme built his ministry on the assertion that believers in Jesus Christ must learn the Word of God to know the will of God for their lives and to execute the plan of God for their lives. He defined ""Bible"
"Exergasia Exergasia (from the Greek εξ, ""ex"", ""out"" and εργον, ""ergon"", ""work"") is a form of parallelism where one idea is repeated and only the way it is stated is changed. In Latin, exergasia is known as expolitio. This device of parallelism was first identified by the twelfth-century Jewish scholars Abraham Ibn Ezra and Joseph Kimhi, who referred to it as ""kefel 'inyan be-millot shonot"" (""doubling of the thought with other words""). The term was next identified by Christian Schoettgen, who wrote ""De Exergasia Sacra"" (""From sacred exergasia"") in 1733. The Bishop Robert Lowth identified specific types of parallelism and"
"go deep enough into the text to extract the meaning and then to apply that gained knowledge to their personal life in order to create change for their own or other people's benefit. In this type of study, the believer also goes beyond the surface value of the text. However, the purpose is not so much for personal application as gaining information. Exegetical study is used most often by pastors, theologians, writers, professors, and church leaders in order to prepare for sharing lessons with others. It is often categorized as advanced Bible study and is meant to extract the ideas"
"Expository preaching Expository preaching is a form of preaching that details the meaning of a particular text or passage of Scripture. It explains what the Bible means by what it says. Exegesis is technical and grammatical exposition, a careful drawing out of the exact meaning of a passage in its original context. While the term exposition could be used in connection with any verbal informative teaching on any subject, the term is also used in relation to Bible preaching and teaching. The practice originated from the Jewish tradition of the rabbi giving a ""Dvar Torah"", explaining a passage from the"
"Analysis Analysis is the process of breaking a complex topic or substance into smaller parts in order to gain a better understanding of it. The technique has been applied in the study of mathematics and logic since before Aristotle (384–322 B.C.), though ""analysis"" as a formal concept is a relatively recent development. The word comes from the Ancient Greek ἀνάλυσις (""analysis"", ""a breaking up"", from ""ana-"" ""up, throughout"" and ""lysis"" ""a loosening""). As a formal concept, the method has variously been ascribed to Alhazen, René Descartes (""Discourse on the Method""), and Galileo Galilei. It has also been ascribed to Isaac"
"exegesis developed in Alexandria and Antioch. Alexandrian interpretation, exemplified by Origen, tended to read Scripture allegorically, while Antiochene interpretation adhered to the literal sense, holding that other meanings (called ""theoria"") could only be accepted if based on the literal meaning. Catholic theology distinguishes two senses of scripture: the literal and the spiritual. The ""literal"" sense of understanding scripture is the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture. The ""spiritual"" sense is further subdivided into: Regarding exegesis, following the rules of sound interpretation, Catholic theology holds: Protestant Christians believe that the Bible is a self-sufficient revelation, the final authority on all"
"Aesthetics Aesthetics () is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of art, beauty, and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. In its more technical epistemological perspective, it is defined as the study of subjective and sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics studies how artists imagine, create and perform works of art; how people use, enjoy, and criticize art; and what happens in their minds when they look at paintings, listen to music, or read poetry, and understand what they see and hear. It also studies how they feel about art—why"
"exegesis is the most hermeneutically complex level of interpretation for several reasons. One is that every ruling must be considered with respect to the corpus of Islamic holy law. If the ruling contradicts some other one, does it abrogate/mitigate its foil, or is it itself abrogated/mitigated? Note that the foil may not always be a particular verse or pericope, but a principle synthesized from multiple rulings. The second, even more basic, complexity resides in determining which verses have legal content. A seemingly proscriptive verse may be made merely polemical by interpretation, while a seemingly non-proscriptive verse may have actual legal"
"context and discoverable meaning of its author, ""eisegesis"" occurs when a reader imposes his or her interpretation into and onto the text. As a result, exegesis tends to be objective when employed effectively while eisegesis is regarded as highly subjective. The plural of eisegesis is ""eisegeses"" (). An individual who practices eisegesis is known as an ""eisegete"" (); this is also the verb form. The term ""eisegete"" is often used in a mildly derogatory fashion. Although the terms ""eisegesis"" and ""exegesis"" are commonly heard in association with Biblical interpretations, both (and especially exegesis) are broadly used across literary disciplines. While"
"Epistemology Epistemology (; ) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. Epistemology is the study of the nature of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Much debate in epistemology centers on four areas: (1) the philosophical analysis of the nature of knowledge and how it relates to such concepts as truth, belief, and justification, (2) various problems of skepticism, (3) the sources and scope of knowledge and justified belief, and (4) the criteria for knowledge and justification. Epistemology addresses such questions as: ""What makes justified beliefs justified?"", ""What does it mean to say that we"
"word ἦθος ""ethos"" meaning character and ""pharmacology"" the study of drug actions and mechanism. Cardiovascular pharmacology is the study of the effects of drugs on the entire cardiovascular system, including the heart and blood vessels. Pharmacogenetics is clinical testing of genetic variation that gives rise to differing response to drugs. Pharmacogenomics is the application of genomic technologies to drug discovery and further characterization of older drugs. Pharmacoepidemiology is the study of the effects of drugs in large numbers of people. Safety pharmacology specialises in detecting and investigating potential undesirable pharmacodynamic effects of new chemical entities (NCEs) on physiological functions in"
"stem cell research produced many new issues requiring ethical debate. History of ethics Ethics is the branch of philosophy that examines right and wrong moral behavior, moral concepts (such as justice, virtue, duty) and moral language. Various ethical theories pose various answers to the question ""What is the greatest good?"" and elaborate a complete set of proper behaviors for individuals and groups. Ethical theories are closely related to forms of life in various social orders. The epic poems that stand at the beginning of many world literatures, such as the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad and the Icelandic Eddas,"
"theoretical study of human knowledge, which Aristotle called ""contemplation"", is the highest human ability and happiness. The Ancient Greeks applied the term to anything: for example, the excellence of a chimney, the excellence of a bull for breeding, and the excellence of a man. The meaning of the word changes depending on what it describes since everything has its own peculiar excellence; the ""arete"" of a man is different from the ""arete"" of a horse. This way of thinking comes first from Plato, where it can be seen in the Allegory of the Cave. In particular, the aristocratic class was"
"Seminary (1991-1999) and now serves as Associate Professor of New Testament (1999–present). In much of Saunders' work he asserts ""we usually think that the goal of exegesis is to uncover the meanings in a text. But ‘meaning’ is discovered more in the dialogues that transpire between interpreters, their communities and worlds, the text, the worlds of the text, and the tradition."" He is a proponent of the school of biblical interpretation which takes into account all external factors in the current setting, not just the text itself. This has led to an increased emphasis of how scripture engages the contemporary"
"of the church and should be the normative way in which sermons should be preached. Some of these movements include: Australia Britain United States Bible quotations are from ""The Holy Bible, English Standard Version"", published by HarperCollins Publishers (c) 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Expository preaching Expository preaching is a form of preaching that details the meaning of a particular text or passage of Scripture. It explains what the Bible means by what it says. Exegesis is technical and grammatical exposition, a careful drawing out of the exact meaning"
"Cathexis In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea. The Greek term ""cathexis"" (κάθεξις) was chosen by James Strachey to render the German term ""Besetzung"" in his translation of Sigmund Freud's complete works. Freud himself wrote of ""interest (Besetzung)"", in an early letter to Ernest Jones. Peter Gay objected that Strachey's use of cathexis was an unnecessarily esoteric replacement for Freud's use of ""Besetzung"" – ""a word from common German speech rich in suggestive meanings, among them 'occupation' (by troops) and 'charge' (of electricity)"". Freud defined cathexis"
"and time, as opposed to abstract objects, such as numbers, and universals, which are properties held by multiple particulars, such as redness or a gender. The type of existence, if any, of universals and abstract objects is an issue of debate. Epistemology is the study of knowledge (Greek episteme). Epistemologists study the putative sources of knowledge, including intuition, a priori reason, memory, perceptual knowledge, self-knowledge and testimony. They also ask: What is truth? Is knowledge justified true belief? Are any beliefs justified? Putative knowledge includes propositional knowledge (knowledge that something is the case), know-how (knowledge of how to do something)"
"the existence of God, belief and rationality, cosmology, and logical inferences of logical consistency from sacred texts. Although philosophy has long been used in evaluation of religious claims (""e.g."" Augustine and Pelagius's debate concerning original sin), the rise of scholasticism in the 11th century, which represented ""the search for order in intellectual life"" (Russell, 170), more fully integrated the Western philosophical tradition (with the introduction of translations of Aristotle) in religious study. There is some amount of overlap between subcategories of religious studies and the discipline itself. Religious studies seeks to study religious phenomena as a whole, rather than be"
"Axiology Axiology (from Greek , ""axia"", ""value, worth""; and , ""-logia"") is the philosophical study of value. It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics, philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth, or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics. The term was first used by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908. Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of ""right"" and ""good"" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of ""beauty"" and ""harmony."" Formal axiology, the"
"History of ethics Ethics is the branch of philosophy that examines right and wrong moral behavior, moral concepts (such as justice, virtue, duty) and moral language. Various ethical theories pose various answers to the question ""What is the greatest good?"" and elaborate a complete set of proper behaviors for individuals and groups. Ethical theories are closely related to forms of life in various social orders. The epic poems that stand at the beginning of many world literatures, such as the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, Homer's Iliad and the Icelandic Eddas, portray a set of values that suit the strong leader"
"the world. Broadly speaking, it is the study of the destiny of man as it is revealed in the Bible, which is the primary source for all Christian eschatology studies. The word eschatology (pronounced ""eskatology"") is derived from two Greek words meaning ""last"" and ""study"" (ἔσχατος, last; and λογία, lit. discourse). Eschatology is concerned with the afterlife, beginning with death and the personal judgment which follows the death of the individual, and which is followed by the destination of heaven or hell. (In Catholic theology, heaven is sometimes preceded by purgatory.) Eschatology also concerns itself with events which are said"
"Anamnesis (philosophy) In philosophy, anamnesis (; ) is a concept in Plato's epistemological and psychological theory that he develops in his dialogues ""Meno"" and ""Phaedo"", and alludes to in his ""Phaedrus"". It is the idea that humans possess innate knowledge (perhaps acquired before birth) and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. In ""Meno"", Plato's character (and old teacher) Socrates is challenged by Meno with what has become known as the sophistic paradox, or the paradox of knowledge: In other words, if you don't know any of the attributes, properties, and/or other descriptive markers of any kind that"
"diegesis (Greek διήγησις). Mimesis ""shows"", rather than ""tells"", by means of directly represented action that is enacted. Diegesis, however, is the ""telling"" of the story by a narrator; the author narrates action indirectly and describes what is in the characters' minds and emotions. The narrator may speak as a particular character or may be the ""invisible narrator"" or even the ""all-knowing narrator"" who speaks from above in the form of commenting on the action or the characters. In Book III of his ""Republic"" (c. 373 BCE), Plato examines the style of poetry (the term includes comedy, tragedy, epic and lyric"
"author of John writes that in the New Jerusalem, ""there will be no more curse."" [Rev 22:3] The ""Evangelical Dictionary of Theology"" (Baker, 1984) says: Christian eschatology Christian eschatology is a major branch of study within Christian theology dealing with the ""last things."" Eschatology, from two Greek words meaning ""last"" (ἔσχατος) and ""study"" (-λογία), is the study of 'end things', whether the end of an individual life, the end of the age, the end of the world or the nature of the Kingdom of God. Broadly speaking, Christian eschatology is the study concerned with the ultimate destiny of the individual"
"comparing it to dove's down, an Ethiopian's tooth, and snow. In the sense of music, the concept of exergasia (referred to as expolitio) is used to mean much the same thing as it does in literature. John Irving, in his 1998 book ""Mozart: The ""Haydn"" Quartets"", calls expolitio ""dwelling on the same topic and yet seeming to say something ever new"" (Irving 67). Exergasia Exergasia (from the Greek εξ, ""ex"", ""out"" and εργον, ""ergon"", ""work"") is a form of parallelism where one idea is repeated and only the way it is stated is changed. In Latin, exergasia is known as"
"to employ it—albeit inadvertently—as part of their own experiential theology. Modern evangelical scholars accuse liberal Protestants of practicing Biblical eisegesis, while mainline scholars accuse fundamentalists of practicing eisegesis. Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians say that all Protestants engage in eisegesis, because the Bible can be correctly understood only through the lens of Holy Tradition as handed down by the institutional Church; this is articulated in the ""Dei verbum"". Jews, in turn, might assert that Christians practice eisegesis when they read the Old Testament as anticipating Jesus of Nazareth. In conducting Bible translation, translators have to make many exegetical decisions. Sometimes"
"skills such as distinguishing different perspectives, interpreting, inferring, sequencing, compare and contrast and evaluating. [source?] Ekphrasis Ekphrasis or ecphrasis, comes from the Greek for the description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, often used in the adjectival form ekphrastic, is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. In ancient times, it referred to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The word comes from the Greek ἐκ ""ek"" and φράσις ""phrásis"", 'out' and 'speak' respectively, and the verb ἐκφράζειν ""ekphrázein"", ""to proclaim or call an inanimate"
"is linked to ethics and therefore has implications for how one behaves. Christian theology is the study of Christian belief and practice. Such study concentrates primarily upon the texts of the Old Testament and the New Testament as well as on Christian tradition. Christian theologians use biblical exegesis, rational analysis and argument. Theology might be undertaken to help the theologian better understand Christian tenets, to make comparisons between Christianity and other traditions, to defend Christianity against objections and criticism, to facilitate reforms in the Christian church, to assist in the propagation of Christianity, to draw on the resources of the"