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How to use exegesis in a sentence

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Exegesis means a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text. Example: “As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.”

Examples of exegesis by meaning

nounA critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.

  • As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.1913, Francis Aveling, “Rationalism”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)
  • Historical scholarship bears exclusively on interpretive reading; when it is properly subordinated as a means, its end is exegesis; all of its techniques are of service to the grammatical art.1940, Mortimer J. Adler, Two Essays on Docility

More sentences with exegesis

  • Zand or 'Interpretation' is a term for the exegesis of Avestan texts through glosses, commentaries and translations.1984, Mary Boyce, Textual Sources for the Study of Zoroastrianism, Manchester: UP, page 3. From the entry Zend
  • Exegesis is therefore related to hermeneutics, as language is to grammar, or as reasoning is to logic.1913, Anthony John Maas, “Hermeneutics”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913). From the entry hermeneutics
  • More recent research, patristic and papyral, has largely changed the method of Old Testament exegesis.1910, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. I, p. 582. From the entry papyral
  • These accelerationists, xenofeminists, and inhumanists take up Landian ideas and concepts in various ways, but there is minimal textual exegesis of Land’s own writings.2019, Vincent Le, "Slave, Sister, Sexborg, Sphinx: Feminine Figurations in Nick Land's Philosophy", Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist…. From the entry xenofeminist
  • The Neoplatonic exegesis of the two “complete” (teleiotic) dialogues that follow the basic cycle of ten—Timaeus and Parmenides—begins to answer this question.2014, Danielle A. Layne, The Neoplatonic Socrates, page 103. From the entry teleiotic
  • Irenaeus avoids allegorism, that when he uses it the exegesis is mostly typology, and that allegoristic passages are not for him determinative for faith.2001, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, page 255. From the entry allegorism
  • As Linda Seebach put it, fisking is "line by line exegesis of idiocy," named after "journalist Robert Fisk, who often deserves it." Fisking is now a widely practiced technique.2006, Peter Wood, A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now, page 246. From the entry fisking
  • Any preaching and exegesis that exploits the ignorance of the 'lewed' by the intellectual games of misquoting, misapplying and misexplicating is rejected as un-Christian and uncharitable.1990, Poetica (Tokyo) - Volumes 32-34, page 19. From the entry misexplicate
  • Usage has restricted the meaning of hermeneutics to the science of Biblical exegesis, that is, to the collection of rules which govern the right interpretation of Sacred Scripture.1913, Anthony John Maas, “Hermeneutics”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913). From the entry hermeneutics

Meaning of exegesis

  1. noun A critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.
  2. noun An explanatory note; a gloss.

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Questions about exegesis in a sentence

How do you use exegesis in a sentence?
Exegesis is used as a noun. For example: “As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.”
What is a short sentence with exegesis?
“As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis.”
What does exegesis mean?
Exegesis means a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, especially a religious text.

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