Exegesis and scriptural commentary are at the heart of Jewish, Christian, and Muslims traditions. Evolving in all three Abrahamic faiths as a multifaceted practice—at once social, devotional, intellectual, creative, and educational—exegesis constituted an essential aspect of expression and belief. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the shape of the canon, the limits of acceptable interpretation, and the meaning of salvation history from the perspective of faith, exegesis was often elaborated along the fault-lines of inter-confessional disputation and polemical conflict...
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