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noun

The definition of an exegete is someone who is skilled in the interpretation of something written.

A professor teaching about the New Testament of the Bible is an example of an exegete.

exegete

an expert in exegesis

Origin of exegete

from Classical Greek ex?g?t?s, interpreter from ex?geisthai: see exegesis

exegete

also ex·e·ge·tist

noun

A person skilled in exegesis.

Origin of exegete

Greek exēgētēs from exēgeisthai to interpret ; see exegesis .

exegete

Noun

(plural exegetes)

A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present exegetes, present participle exegeting, simple past and past participle exegeted)

(chiefly religion) To interpret; to perform an exegesis.

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής (eksēgētēs).

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He understood it to be the first duty of an exegete to ascertain the meaning of the writer, and he showed that this could be done by the use of grammar and history and the historical imagination.
This second phase of the activity of the school closes with the comprehensive labours of Alexander of Aphrodisias (Scholarch, c. 200), the exegete par excellence, called sometimes the second Aristotle.
He seems to have received the ordinary Christian scriptures; and Origen, who treats him as a notable exegete, has preserved fragments of a commentary by him on the fourth gospel (brought together by Grabe in the second volume of his Spicilegium), while Clement of Alexandria quotes from him what appears to be a passage from a commentary on Luke.
Lucian the great exegete of Antioch and his school derived their inspiration from Paul, and he was through Lucian a forefather of Arianism.
A moderately liberal theologian, he became best known as a New Testament critic and exegete, being the author of the Commentary on the Synoptics (1889; 3rd ed., 1901), the Johannine books (1890; 2nd ed., 1893), and the Acts of the Apostles (1901), in the series Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament.

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