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  2. Eisegesis - Wikipedia

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    Eisegesis is best understood when contrasted with exegesis. Exegesis is drawing out a text's meaning in accordance with the author's context and discoverable meaning. Eisegesis is when a reader imposes their interpretation of the text. Thus exegesis tends to be objective; and eisegesis, highly subjective.

  3. Hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    The connection between hermeneutics and education has deep historical roots. The ancient Greeks gave the interpretation of poetry a central place in educational practice, as indicated by Dilthey: "systematic exegesis (hermeneia) of the poets developed out of the demands of the educational system." [62]

  4. Exegesis - Wikipedia

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    An English-language Bible open to the Book of Isaiah. Exegesis (/ ˌ ɛ k s ɪ ˈ dʒ iː s ɪ s / EK-sih-JEE-sis; from the Greek ἐξήγησις, from ἐξηγεῖσθαι, "to lead out") is a critical explanation or interpretation of a text. The term is traditionally applied to the interpretation of Biblical works.

  5. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English.The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical information useful to college students), and "learner's ...

  7. Talmudical hermeneutics - Wikipedia

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    grammar and exegesis; the interpretation of certain words and letters and apparently superfluous and/or missing words or letters, and prefixes and suffixes; the interpretation of those letters which, in certain words, are provided with points; the interpretation of the letters in a word according to their numerical value (see Gematria)

  8. Biblical studies - Wikipedia

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    Biblical exegesis is the explanation or interpretation of the scriptures traditionally known as The Bible. Much biblical exegesis is founded upon historical-literary dynamics, either using scripture to interpret history and science, or using science and history to interpret scripture.

  9. Historical-grammatical method - Wikipedia

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    The founder of historical-grammatical method was the scholar Johann August Ernesti (1707–1781) who, while not rejecting the historical-critical method of his time, emphasized the perspicuity of Scripture, the principle that the Bible communicates through the normal use of words and grammar, making it understandable like any other book.

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