biblical commentary
Interpreting holy texts
Biblical commentary is scholarly or devotional writing that explains and interprets scripture, typically working through a book of the Bible verse by verse or passage by passage.
Commentaries range from academic works examining historical context and original languages to practical guides for laypeople and preachers.
She consulted three commentaries while preparing her sermon on Romans.
- verse by verseOne stanza at a time
- redaction criticismStudy of textual editing processes
- hermeneuticsStudy of interpretation methods
- Dead Sea ScrollsAncient manuscripts from Judean caves
- historical contextPast conditions explaining events
exegesis · covenant · Sunday school · word study · Babylonian exile · rhetorical analysis · typology · semantic fields · church teaching · etymology · intertextuality · eschatology · early Christianity · salvation · chiasm · Jewish diaspora · proof-texting · Old Testament
- Christian literaturedevotionals, prayer books, hymnal, missals, lectionary
- religious writingshomilies, sermons, meditations, epistles, catechisms
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
- exegesisliteral interpretation, literal sense, typology, marginal notes, lemma
- medieval educationliberal arts, trivium, scriptorium, copying, religious instruction
- Medieval Judaicamidrash, kabbalah, legal rulings, aggadah, siddur
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Christian holy scriptures
scripture · biblical text · primary source · original text · sacred text
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Scholarly analysis of scriptures
literary theory · skeptical analysis · demythologization · historical analysis
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