When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_senses_of_Scripture

    In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...

  3. Masoretic Text - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic_Text

    It is also evident from the notings of corrections and of variant alternatives that scribes felt free to choose according to their personal taste and discretion between different readings. [13] The text of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Peshitta read somewhat in-between the Masoretic Text and the old Greek. [2]

  4. Tropological reading - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropological_reading

    Tropological reading or "moral sense" is a Christian tradition, theory, and practice of interpreting the figurative meaning of the Bible. It is part of biblical exegesis and one of the Four senses of Scripture .

  5. Biblical literalism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_literalism

    Biblical literalism or biblicism is a term used differently by different authors concerning biblical interpretation.It can equate to the dictionary definition of literalism: "adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense", [1] where literal means "in accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical".

  6. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegorical_interpretation...

    Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.

  7. Stacte - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacte

    Ben-Yehoshua, et al., write "Stacte, which appears in the Bible in Exodus (30:34), probably refers to the liquid form of myrrh" and states that ancient writers referred to "a naturally flowing gum, called stacte, which sometimes flows from the bark of the tree without any cutting, before the actual harvest."

  8. Gar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar

    The spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus) is a smaller species of gar, [34] measuring just under four feet long and weighing 15 pounds on average. [34] Like Florida gars, female spotted gars are typically larger than male spotted gars. [46] This gar has dark spots covering its head, body, and fins. [34] Its body is compact, and it has a shorter ...

  9. Haftara - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haftara

    Further evidence of the lack of an ancient authoritative list of readings is the simple fact that, while the practice of reading a haftara every Sabbath and most holy days is ubiquitous, the different traditions and communities around the world have by now adopted differing lists, indicating that no solid tradition from antiquity dictated the ...