OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12197

exegesis

/ɛksɪˈdʒiːsɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
exegesis • exégesis
A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.
Accordingly Athanasius complains loudly of their exegesis (Ep. Æg. 3–4, cf. Orat. i. 8, 52), and insists (id. i. 54, cf. already de Decr. 14) on the primary necessity of always con…
As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.
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