exegete

ex·e·gete

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.

an expert in exegesis

Origin of exegete

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

also ex·e·ge·tist

noun

A person skilled in exegesis.

Origin of exegete

Greek exēgētēs from exēgeisthai to interpret ; see exegesis .

Noun

(plural exegetes)

Verb

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

Origin

From Ancient Greek ἐξηγητής (eksēgētēs).

As an exegete Theodoret belongs to the Antiochene school, of which Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore of Mopsuestia were the heads.
In 1040 at Mainz), a famous Talmudist and com mentator, his pupil Jacob ben Yaqar, and Moses of Narbonne, called ha-Darshan, the "Exegete," were the forerunners of the greatest of all Jewish commentators, Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi), who died at Troyes in 1105.
On this method the sacred writings are regarded as an inexhaustible mine of philosophical and dogmatic wisdom; in reality the exegete reads his own ideas into any passage he chooses.
As a theologian, in fact, Origen is not merely an orthodox traditionalist and believing exegete, but a speculative philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies.
As an exegete he exercised a powerful, and on the whole a beneficial, influence on theological investigation.

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