What's the difference between exegesis and midrash?
Exegesis
Definition:
(n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.
(n.) Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.
Example Sentences:
(1) These observations have far-reaching implications regarding contemporary dental curriculum, particularly concerning exegesis of the MPD syndrome theory and concepts of dysfunctional dental occlusion.
(2) His unique contribution is his ability to recognize and pursue the uncertain entity, until chance observation, the evolution of the illness, or new technics of study make its exegesis possible.
(3) This paper argues on a number of levels that before subjecting the book to psychoanalytic exegesis every effort should be made to understand its conscious intentionality.
(4) This paper is an examination of the motivations for the idea, an exegesis of Freud's writings on the subject, and a review of critical opinion.
(5) When we are close to nature, we sometimes find ourselves, as Christians put it, surprised by joy: “A happiness with an overtone of something more, which we might term an elevated or, indeed, a spiritual quality.” Exegesis of Pope Francis’s encyclical call for action on climate change | Letters Read more He believes we are wired to develop a rich emotional relationship with nature.
(6) Selective exegesis of the various editions of his textbook has led to a rigid view of his contribution.
(7) But by a strange dialectic of exegesis and opacity, it and they remain oblique.
(8) Alongside came more popular works of exegesis - a Historical Association pamphlet on Cromwell (1958), the bestselling (but not adulatory) biography God's Englishman (1970), the textbook The Century Of Revolution (1961) and the hugely successful Penguin economic history, Reformation To Industrial Revolution (1967).
(9) It is also possible to detail painstakingly the techniques of coping with each complication, but such would require book rather than chapter exegesis, and those who need these details are referred to the bibliography.
(10) Francis has made it not just safe to be Catholic and green; he’s made it obligatory.” Exegesis of Pope Francis’s encyclical call for action on climate change | Letters Read more Ivereign added: “It captures his deep disquiet about the direction of the modern world, the way technology and the myth of progress are leading us to commodify human beings and exploit nature.
(11) The exegesis of the Ilias provides us with ample information on the state of war surgery in archaic Greece.
(12) The "arts" conjures up images of committees of bores, worthily reverent exegesis, the horrors of dance, the misfit between opera and even a 42-inch screen, and ancient avant-gardist cliches – "ahead of its time", "ground-breaking", "controversial".
(13) It seemed like a brain-dead flagwaver at the time, but Quentin Tarantino gave a famous exegesis (allegedly nicked from his Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary) of the movie's throbbing homoerotic overtones in his cameo in the 1994 independent movie Sleep With Me, an early sign that whatever the critics felt, Tony Scott enjoyed the respect of his fellow directors.
(14) In 1966 he was awarded a PhD in Hadith (the sayings of Muhammad, Islam's second source after the Qur'an itself) and Tafsir , exegesis of the Qur'an.
(15) We can do an eight-page exegesis of one number,” Hammond says, “for example on how likely it is a company is going to default on its debt.
(16) The extent of control of counter-transference and defence analysis in various work-contexts is introduced: in the contract of further training (as a concretion of career-identification), in exegesis (as the central professional activity of protestant theologists, especially clergymen), in socio-cultural comprehension of collective professional duties and aims.
(17) The author is professor of palaeobiology at Leicester University Exegesis of Pope Francis’s encyclical call for action on climate change | Letters Read more NOT THE FIRST TIME Previous mass extinctions Geological history includes many periods when species have died in large numbers.
(18) · Wall Street Journal 1999 appreciation · Philip K Dick on philosophy: a brief interview · 2019: Off-World: Blade Runner-related archive · The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation, from Exegesis
Midrash
Definition:
(n.) A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Because," Noah says in a midrash, speaking as the rabbis need him to, "nobody likes you.
(2) Midrash suggests that the fruit of the tree of which Adam was forbidden was, in fact, a vine.
(3) Then again, and of course, there's another midrash: no, the fish didn't die, because God said, if you don't mind reading properly, he would destroy all he had created "from the face of the Earth".
(4) The answer to that presumably is the brand new midrash of Noah-the-movie: Ray Winstone would only come and shout at him that he was talking rubbish, then set his hoard of CGI'd supporters against him.
(5) As I said, midrash goes on.The joys of the black holes of biblical storytelling also go on.
(6) The bellowing and infighting on paper that had been going on since the Hebrews returned from their exile in Babylon, was collected and edited in the early Middle Ages into various books of midrash: interjections, extrapolations, interpretation, each devoted to the books of the Bible.