Exegesis

Exegesis is the critical interpretation and explanation of a text, especially scripture. It examines language, historical setting, literary form, and context to clarify meaning.

Hermeneutics: Hermeneutics is the theory and practice of interpreting texts, symbols, and other expressions. It provides the broader account of how interpretation works, within which exegesis is practiced.
Eisegesis: Eisegesis is the interpretation of a text by importing ideas into it rather than grounding claims in its evidence. It names the common contrast with exegesis: imposing a reading instead of drawing one from the text.
Midrash: Midrash is a body of Jewish interpretive literature and a method of exploring meanings in biblical texts. Rabbinic midrash developed distinctive ways of extending and connecting scriptural passages.
Biblical exegesis: Biblical exegesis is the critical interpretation of texts in the Jewish and Christian Bibles. It is a major, text-specific practice of the broader interpretive discipline.
Authorial intent: Authorial intent is the meaning or purpose an author meant to communicate through a work. Exegetes debate how much an author’s intended meaning should govern interpretation.
Textual criticism: Textual criticism compares surviving copies of a work to reconstruct or assess its wording. Establishing which words belong to a text can be a prerequisite for interpreting them.
Biblical theology: Biblical theology studies the theological themes and development of the Bible as a collection of texts. It synthesizes theological patterns across texts, while exegesis typically argues from particular passages.
Septuagint: The Septuagint is an ancient Greek translation of Jewish scriptures, produced over several centuries before the Common Era. Its translation choices shaped how Greek-speaking Jewish and Christian communities read scripture.
Quranic exegesis: Quranic exegesis is the interpretation and explanation of the Quran, known in Islamic tradition as tafsir. It applies interpretive methods to Islam’s foundational scripture and its linguistic and historical traditions.
Reception history: Reception history studies how a text has been read, used, and interpreted across time. Later readings may shape a text’s significance without establishing its original meaning.

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