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A commentary of a philosophical text is an analysis of a philosophical text that is undertaken from different angles and points of view, ...
This is an outline of commentaries and commentators.Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary.
Commentary! The Musical, the musical commentary accompanying Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog; Commentary or narration, the words in a documentary film; Exegesis, a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text (e.g. a Bible commentary) Literary criticism, the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
In philology, a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying volume. It may draw on methodologies of close reading and literary criticism, but its primary purpose is to elucidate the language of the text and the specific culture that produced it, both of which may be foreign to the reader.
In literary criticism, close reading is the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text. A close reading emphasizes the single and the particular over the general, via close attention to individual words, the syntax, the order in which the sentences unfold ideas, as well as formal structures.
A single commentary will generally attempt to give a coherent and unified view on the Bible as a whole, for example, from a Catholic or Reformed perspective, or a commentary that focuses on textual criticism or historical criticism from a secular point of view. However, each volume will inevitably lean toward the personal emphasis bias of its ...
Synonyms of the New Testament: Fifth Edition Revised (1860). Proverbs and their Lessons (1861). Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia: Revelation II, III (1863). Every Good Gift from Above (1864). Poems: Collected and Arranged Anew (1865). Studies in the Gospels (1867). A Household Book of English Poetry (1868).
Malbim's fame and popularity rest upon his novel commentary on the Bible. His first published commentary was on Megillat Esther (1845), followed by his commentary on most of the Hebrew Tanakh from then until 1876. His commentary on the Bible is based most notably upon his principle that there are no true synonyms in the Tanakh; apparent ...