The Wesleyan Quadrilateral and Contemporary Biblical Exegesis

‘‘What Israel Forbade to Himself’’: A Case of Biblical Exegesis in the Qur’an?

The derivation of legal norms from narrative texts is a familiar, indeed pervasive feature of Qur’an exegesis. It is striking that in at least one passage, the text of the Qur’an appears to engage in its own internal process of interpreting biblical narrative as having normative legal consequences. The passage arises in the third sura of the Qur’an, The House of Imran, in the course of a length...

A Biblical Exegesis of Colossians 3 : 1 - 3 and its Significance for Christians

This thesis is a Biblical Exegesis of Colossians 3:1-3 investigating its significance for Christians today. It explored: the historical, cultural and literary context of Colossians and the church in Colossae; in depth exegetical analysis to determine authorship and its original meaning, including preliminary analysis, contextual analysis, verbal analysis, literary analysis, an exegetical synthe...

Surrogate mother agreements: contemporary legal aspects of a biblical notion.

Andrea Rassell exegesis

Wesleyan Economic s Working

A customary gender division of labor is one in which women and men are directed towards certain tasks and/or explicitly prohibited from performing others. We offer an explanation as to why the gender division of labor is so often enforced by custom, and why customary gender divisions of labor generally involve both direction and prohibition. Our model builds on the literature on the marital hol...