Origen’s Commentary on Ephesians is preserved only in fragments excerpted in a Byzantine catena, which are inadequate for reconstructing Origen’s interpretation of this letter. This article investigates the possibility that a commentary on the same text by Jerome preserves the interplay in Origen’s commentary between the investigation of specific exegetical problems and the interpretation of th...

Although the stool of proper biblical exegesis must rest evenly upon the four legs of grammar, history, theology, and literary analysis, too often the literary leg receives such short fashioning that the resulting hermeneutical product is left unbalanced. While in no way minimizing the crucial importance of all four areas of exegesis, this paper concentrates on the benefits of applying sound li...

Gareth Evans’ account of Identifi cation-freedom (IF), which he develops in Chapters 6 and 7 of The Varieties of Reference (henceforth VR) is almost universally misunderstood. Howell is guilty of this same misunderstanding, and as a result claims to have mounted a criticism of Evans, when in fact he has not. I will take the occasion of Howell’s otherwise insightful article to clarify Evans’ pos...

since molla sadra’s era, various exegeses have been made of the principality of existence (isalat al-wujoud) and non-principality of quiddity which can be placed in three distinct groups: 1) common-sense exegeses, 2) philosophical exegeses, and 3) mystical exegeses. common-sense exegesis is the one derived from a common sense viewpoint of the universe, which presupposes the quiddities external....

The Archangel Michael is the angel in charge of all heavenly powers. He mentioned by name only Book Daniel (Old Testament), Epistle Jude (New Testament) and Revelation written John Apostle Testament). Archistratigus highly revered various Christian traditions. This article presents first literary translation into Russian a Coptic text known as ‘Exegesis on feast day ascribed to Macarius Tkow’. ...

‘Abdul-Ḥakīm Bihjatpūr is among the contemporary Qur’ān scholars who have turned to revelation-order-based exegesis, publishing a book on its basics, rules, principles and benefits. The current study aimed at the criticism and investigation of the revelation-order-based exegesis from the viewpoint of Bihjatpūr, using library research and the descriptive-analytical method, in order to show that ...

According to Syed Naquib al-Attas and Mahayudin Yahaya, the teaching of Islam arrived in Malaysia during the end of 9 th century, though historical notes on the study and writing of Quranic exegesis or tafsir were not much found except after the 20 th century. Besides, reviewing the literature on the topic found that the writings do not describe the tafsir development in-depth as well factors d...