Exegesis

The exegesis () in Greek "carry out") is, in philology , a thorough and critical text. So we practice exegesis as a job prior to publishing the work of all authors, old and contemporary.

The exegesis of the most famous are those of the authors of antiquity , such Plato and Aristotle. Yet, in popular parlance, the word tends to specialize in religious texts known as sacred as the Bible , the Old and New Testaments , are more discussion than others.

The word exegesis is linked in its origin, the invention of textual criticism in the ^15th century by Lorenzo Valla ^{Historical-Critical Exegesis}

Whether secular texts or sacred texts, the work is the same since the mid-nineteenth ^century. It is practiced in 10 steps:

• criticism of the text,
• translation of the text (if applicable)
• text analysis to determine
• history of writing,
• literary criticism
• criticism of form,
• traditional criticism, (the Talmud , the Midrash are collections of documents traditional exegesis)
• motivations of the writer,
• the history of literary movements (including religious, if applicable)
• interpretation

Exegesis of contemporary authors

Regarding the authors contemporary, the memories Institute of Contemporary Publishing (IMEC), installed in the Abbey d'Ardenne , place founded by Premonstratensian near Caen , provides a good example of what this work. It preserves the manuscripts of authors wishing to deposit their funds or the manuscripts of authors deceased as a result of bequests. The exegesis of funds Marguerite Duras has already led to various publications.

The main work of exegesis of contemporary manuscripts (since the First World War ) is still made by publishers, that is to say, private companies, most often when they try to make a definitive scholarly edition or the complete works of an author.

Bible

Qur'an

The traditional exegesis of the Koran is commonly made from the Koran itself and Hadiths of Prophet Muhammad. The exegesis of the Koran is often seen as the official reading, exoteric, Koran and slice in that, with exegeses esoteric as you can see in other religions.

Most Islamic schools offer a work based on one or more interpretations of the Koran, made by grammarians recognized or Islamic jurists. Most Muslim sensitivities (see Islam ) have exegeses may vary substantially (eg about the parentage of the prophet explicitly). Esoteric readings of the Koran are not called exegesis (cf. Sufism , for example).

Regarding the scientific exegesis of the Koran, it is practiced and published in European countries (Germany, France).

Exegesis canonical religious or traditional

Applies mainly to ideological texts, including religious texts, it has the characteristic of relying on a body defined by an authority, the latter being considered as a whole whose parts are likely to be explained by one others.

A group or person gives his interpretation and thus, canonical exegesis approximates the eisegse , meaning to read his own interpretation a given text.

In general, exegesis involves an attempt to look at the text objectively, while eisgse is a more subjective reading.

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Related articles

• scholarly apparatus
• Hermeneutics
• Internal criticism
• Biblical exegesis
• Bible

Bibliography

• Bertrand de Margerie , SJ, Introduction to the history of exegesis, t. I: The Greek Fathers and Oriental, Paris 1980, t. II: The First Great Exegetes Latin, Paris 1983, t. III: St. Augustine , Paris 1983, t. IV: The Latin West, Cerf 1990
• Online edition of School Charters
• Henri-Jean Martin, History of the French edition, vol. 2, The Book Triumphant: 1660-1830, Fayard 1990
• Youssef Seddik , The Koran, another reading, another translation, published Barzach / de l'Aube (co-edition), 2002
• Papers narratology exegesis of the work of Paul Claudel

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