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=== Exegesis === | === Exegesis === | ||
: ''Main Article [[Exegesis]]'' | : ''Main Article [[Exegesis]]'' | ||
Exegesis (also known as the Historical-grammatical method) is a critical interpretation of any text, especially of religious texts such as the [[Bible]] or [[Qur'an]]. More | Exegesis (also known as the Historical-grammatical method) is a critical interpretation of any text, especially of religious texts such as the [[Bible]] or [[Qur'an]]. More specifically it is an extensive investigation of the original meaning of a text in its historical and literary contexts. A person who is skilled in the science of exegesis is known as an exegete. The opposite of this would be [[eisegesis]]. | ||
An important principle of exegesis is determining the meaning an author wished to convey to the audience. It is quite right to use the historians principle of giving more historical weight to those who have more historical immediacy in order to determine what the original intention of the audience views was. It is notable that the [[young earth|young age view]] was held by the early church as well as early Jewish | An important principle of exegesis is determining the meaning an author wished to convey to the audience. It is quite right to use the historians principle of giving more historical weight to those who have more historical immediacy in order to determine what the original intention of the audience views was. It is notable that the [[young earth|young age view]] was held by the early church as well as early Jewish religious leaders. | ||
=== Eisegesis === | === Eisegesis === | ||
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== Issues == | == Issues == | ||
=== | === Time frames === | ||
[[Genesis]] provides specific dates and | [[Genesis]] provides specific dates and time frames for the major events, particularly those related to [[the flood]]. For example: | ||
:"By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry." -- Genesis 8:13-14[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%208:13-14;&version=31;] | :"By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry." -- Genesis 8:13-14[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%208:13-14;&version=31;] | ||
On the other hand, the author is unaware of a single [[mythological]] account from another ancient culture which records its events in such a detailed | On the other hand, the author is unaware of a single [[mythological]] account from another ancient culture which records its events in such a detailed time frame. | ||
=== Genealogies and geography === | === Genealogies and geography === | ||
