enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_senses_of_Scripture

   In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...

3. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretation...

   Due to the widespread popularity of "On Christian Doctrine" in the Middle Ages, the fourfold method became the standard in Christian biblical exegesis of that period. [ 4 ] Literal interpretation: explanation of the meaning of events for historical purposes from a neutral perspective by trying to understand the text in the culture and time it ...

4. Tropological reading - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropological_reading

   Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture .

5. Peshat - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshat

   Peshat (also P'shat, פשט ‎) is one of the two classic methods of Jewish biblical exegesis, the other being Derash.While Peshat is commonly defined as referring to the surface or literal (direct) meaning of a text, [1] or "the plain literal meaning of the verse, the meaning which its author intended to convey", [2] numerous scholars and rabbis have debated this for centuries, giving Peshat ...

6. Anagoge - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagoge

   Anagoge (ἀναγωγή), sometimes spelled anagogy, is a Greek word suggesting a climb or ascent upwards.The anagogical is a method of mystical or spiritual interpretation of statements or events, especially scriptural exegesis, that detects allusions to the afterlife. [1]

7. List of biblical commentaries - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_commentaries

   The history of Christian exegesis may be roughly divided into three periods: the Age of the Fathers, the Age of Catenæ and Scholia (seventh to sixteenth century), and the Age of Modern Commentaries (sixteenth to twentieth century). The earliest known commentary on Christian scriptures was by a Gnostic named Heracleon in the 170s CE. Most of ...