exegesis

Dupret highlights the importance of scriptural exegesis and the role of tradition (or Sunna) in juridical debates.

"Shaking Impurity: Scriptural Exegesis and Legal Innovation in the Babylonian Talmud and Pahlavi Literature" considers commonalities in Babylonian and Zoroastrian approaches to transmission of impurity through movement.

The French Dominican William Peraldus or Guillaume Peyraut (apparently known also in sermon-reading circles as Parisiensis or Parisius) belonged to that large section of highly-educated clergy whose members devoted their scholarly attention to scriptural exegesis and homiletics.

Isma'ilism, one of the three major branches of Shi'ism, is best known for ta'wil, an allegorizing scriptural exegesis, says Hollenberg, by which practitioners claim to derive secret, hidden truths behind the Qur'an's exterior sense.

(7) What is of importance in this debate is the way the scholarly distinction between allegory and typology underwrote a strategy to differentiate those elements in ancient exegesis that were hallmarks of Christian exegetical practice and those elements that were fundamentally foreign to proper scriptural exegesis. For instance, Origen's various renderings of scriptural passages as bearing import for the description and moral formation of the soul is read within the allegory/typology distinction as a Philonic carryover fundamentally disconnected from scriptural meanings.

Many in the audience would have regretted the loss of material such as "O death where is thy sting?" and "If God be for us", and it could argued that the cuts - leading to a very short Part Three - weakened the scriptural exegesis of the piece.

This dialogue begins with a notable scriptural exegesis that examines attitudes toward the disabled in the Hebrew tradition, contextualizing various detrimental understandings of disability within historical and cultural social milieus.

In the first chapter ("Qur'anic Hermeneutics"), Rustom outlines Sadra's approach to scriptural exegesis as it is defined in his Mafatih.

Mainstream theology vis-a-vis science and scriptural exegesis are not, however, evident.

Does not grace and scriptural exegesis play too central a role throughout his search for wisdom to be ignored for all practical purposes?

But when the text is dismissed as an inadequate witness to a vision that only an artist can capture, we depart from the territory of scriptural exegesis. Her account of visual exegesis builds on the work of O'Kane, and Paolo Berdini's The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis, which is, however, criticised for subordinating the visualization of a text to a reading of the text, and thus failing to develop sufficiently the visual character of visual exegesis.

Our training had been in theology and Scriptural exegesis. Aside from daily chapel, we had not been taught the rich Christian traditions of prayer.