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Understanding Exegesis and Its Methods

Exegesis is defined as the critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly religious texts like the Bible. It involves analyzing various aspects of the text such as the context, language, intended audience and genre. Exegesis and hermeneutics are often used interchangeably to refer to the interpretation and explanation of texts. Those who practice exegesis are called exegetes.

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Understanding Exegesis and Its Methods

Exegesis is defined as the critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly religious texts like the Bible. It involves analyzing various aspects of the text such as the context, language, intended audience and genre. Exegesis and hermeneutics are often used interchangeably to refer to the interpretation and explanation of texts. Those who practice exegesis are called exegetes.

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Exegesis - Critical explanation or

interpretation of a text, especially of


scripture

Exegesis (Wikipedia) - Exegesis (/ksdiss/; from the Greek from , "to

is a critical explanation or interpretation of a


lead out")

text, particularly a religious text . Traditionally the term was used primarily for work

with the Bible; however, in modern usage "biblical exegesis" is used for greater specificity to distinguish it from any other broader critical text
explanation.

Exegesis includes a wide range of critical disciplines: , the text, and the original
audience . Other analysis includes classification of the type of literary genres present in the text, and an analysis

of grammatical and syntactical features in the text itself.

exegesis and hermeneutics have been used


The terms

interchangeably .

One who practices exegesis is called an exegete (/ksdit/; from Greek ). The plural of exegesis is exegeses(/ksdisiz/). Adjectives
are exegetic or exegetical (e.g., exegetical commentaries). In biblical exegesis, the opposite of exegesis (to draw out) is eisegesis (to draw in), in the
sense of an eisegetic commentator "importing" or "drawing in" his or her own purely subjective interpretations into the text, unsupported by the text
itself. Eisegesis is often used as a derogatory term.

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