Exegetical

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Very similar to Writer's Block or to Reader's Block except it is when you can't seem to get around to Exegeting certain passages of scripture because it's been assigned as a rediculously long homework assignment. Urban Dictionary

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The Rev. John Coleridge wrote an exegetical work on the Book of Judges; we doubt whether Walker could have spelt _exegetical_. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Then Edgeworth fires away about the Odes of Pindar, {80b} and Donne is very aesthetic about Mr. Hallam's Book. {80c} What is the meaning of 'exegetical'? ❋ Edward FitzGerald (1846)

In addition, his interpretations of dogma almost always have a strong exegetical dimension, and he has also contributed several recognized works of theological and dogmatic history. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Just the opposite: they lost their faith because they read the texts in the original languages and accepted what they said at face value, without "spin doctoring" by committed exegetical propagandists who wanted them to believe what they were told, rather than what they could see with their own eyes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this reading of the Rabbinic tradition, the dialectical link between the literal meaning of scripture, in Hebrew the peshat, and the exegetical expansion of that literal meaning, derasha, is enabled by the dynamic process of hermeneutics as a rhetorical-literary and not a spiritual-existential process. ❋ David Shasha (2010)

But before we are going to accept this new wrinkle (part of the problem is that we have — inevitably — people in the congregation who confuse the category of a wrinkle with that of a heresy crept in unawares) or even think through its theological implications, however, we need to proceed by way of exegetical proof. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If a feast of words -- from the exegetical to the incantatory -- about a feast of pictures was on one's menu, they certainly got their fill. ❋ Michael Kurcfeld (2011)

Confucius said that we do not know life, how can we know death Analects XI:11 That Okada took this particular passage from the Confucian Analects as his response to my question about a radical atheist construction of the meaning of the world and humanity in the 20th century is a fascinating exegetical interpretation and adaptation to a contemporary concern. ❋ Ph.D. Rodney L. Taylor (2011)

This book is a kind of "theological exegesis," as well as a personal reflection on the life of Christ; and it is not simply his deft exegetical writing but the personal touch which makes the work so inviting to readers. ❋ S.J. Rev. James Martin (2011)

With his entirely exceptional capacity for work, he was perhaps the person who most contributed to maintaining alive the theological, exegetical and spiritual culture to which successive centuries would pay recourse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The art of Derashah thus comprises the scholarly-intellectual, the ethical, the exegetical, the aesthetic, and the poetical. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rabbinic Midrash begins with the text of Scripture in order to spin out infinities of new meaning through the agency of stories, interpretations, and exegetical acts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But anyone interested in seeing "Eclipse" knows this already because, like "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings," the "Twilight" movies are designed not as movies that work as cinematic objects themselves, but rather as illustrations of books whose fans approach them with the exegetical seriousness of sacred texts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

❋ Glenn (2003)

teacher:"Have you even started your [homework] yet? Or are you [procrastinating]?" me: "I'm not procrastinating; I just have this massive [exegeter's block]!" ❋ Smelly Mely (2009)

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