What's the difference between exegesis and thesis?

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

Thesis


Definition:

  • (n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
  • (n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
  • (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
  • (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.
  • (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
  • (n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
  • (2) Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.
  • (3) The data favor the thesis that neutralization of BVD virus occurs by a multi-hit mechanism and requires combination of at least two molecules of antibody with each virus.
  • (4) Clinical material is used to illustrate this thesis.
  • (5) I went to work at Carville at the invitation of Dr. Kirchheimer, who had seen my Ph.D. thesis.
  • (6) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (7) The thesis considered was that angiotensin II may have a greater role in the fetus than in the adult since the autonomic nervous system does not develop fully until late in gestation.
  • (8) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (9) Doctors who were general practitioners in the period 1973-88 and had written a successful MD or PhD thesis were identified.
  • (10) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
  • (11) The present thesis focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, progression and prevention of dentoalveolar ankylosis.
  • (12) As previously observed the fraction that escapes depends on the solvent viscosity [Marden, M. C. (1983) Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois-Urbana].
  • (13) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
  • (14) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
  • (15) These data support the thesis that cell transport of calcium is accomplished by the attachment of calcium atoms to the cell surface and transport through the plasma membrane bound to either specific carriers or to membrane constituents.
  • (16) To illustrate his thesis he presents the case history of a man who was fatally affected by the family myth and mystification process.
  • (17) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
  • (18) We describe an approach that is based on the thesis that dermatologists can and often should treat such patients.
  • (19) For that reason the electron microscope method with an optically higher resolution was chosen for this thesis.
  • (20) Both polyribosomes and 70S ribosomes that were isolated on sucrose density gra dients and tested separately in cell-free systems were capable of protein syn thesis; however, polyribosomes formed more protein per unit of RNA than monosomes did.