Exegesis vs Interpretation - What's the difference?
exegesis | interpretation |
An exposition or explanation of a text, especially a religious one.
* 1885 , Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson (original translators and editors), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (editor of American edition), Philip Schaff (also credited as editor),
* 1913 , Francis Aveling, Rationalism'', article in '' ,
* 1940 , , ,
(countable) An act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.
(countable) A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning .
(uncountable) The power of explaining.
(countable) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.
(countable) An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.
(countable, physics) An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language.
(countable, logic, model theory) An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus.
As nouns the difference between exegesis and interpretation
is that exegesis is an exposition or explanation of a text, especially a religious one while interpretation is an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure; a translation; a version; a construction.exegesis
English
(wikipedia exegesis)Noun
(exegeses)- Accordingly Athanasius complains loudly of their exegesis (Ep. Æg. 3–4'', ''cf''. Orat. ''i. 8, 52''), ''and insists'' (''id. i.'' 54, cf. already ''de Decr. 14) on the primary necessity of always conscientiously studying the circumstances of time and place, the person addressed, the subject matter, and purpose of the writer, in order not to miss the true sense.
- As with Deism and Materialism, the German Rationalism invaded the department of Biblical exegesis .
- Historical scholarship bears exclusively on interpretive reading; when it is properly subordinated as a means, its end is exegesis'; all of its techniques are of service to the grammatical art. But '''exegesis''' is not ''the'' end; nor is grammar the highest art. ' Exegesis is for the sake of a fair critical judgment, grammar for the sake of logic and rhetoric.
See also
* eisegesis ----interpretation
English
Noun
- the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.
- Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.''