exegesis

• His biographers make him quote them according to the translations in the Aramean tongue;[3] his principles of exegesis, as far as we can judge of them by those of his disciples, much resembled those which were then in vogue, and which form the spirit of the Targums and the Midrashim . —  The Life of Jesus
• If her expositions were not according to the ordinary canons of exegesis, they had the merit of being simple, fresh, and unconventional. —  Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
• Rashi naturally conformed to this system of accentuation, and if he departed from it, it seems he frequently did so inadvertently But the two great sources upon which Rashi drew for his exegesis were the Talmudic and the Midrashic literature, with their two methods of interpreting the Scriptures. —  Rashi
• Though the Spanish Jews did not yet cultivate the allegoric and mystic exegesis, their philosophic sense was rather refined and they did not always approach the study of the Bible without seeking something not clearly expressed in the text, without arriere-pensee so to speak. —  Rashi
• It almost consigned to oblivion the great productions in rational exegesis, always excepting Rashi's commentaries, the popularity of which never waned, as much because of the author's renown as because of his concessions to the Midrash It remained for a Christian exegete to free rational exegesis from the discredit into which it had fallen. —  Rashi

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