A hermeneutical commentary on Revelation 20:1–10

Toward a Hermeneutical Evolutionary Theory

A commentary on hunger in Quranic verses

Hunger has been always regarded as one of the signs in mysticism and morality and all Sufis have known it as one of the bases for their special manner of life. Some have known it to mean eating based on need, some other to mean fasting and some to mean not eating but necessarily. The author, as is understood in the paper, relying on Quran and sunnah, has explained that the meanings are intended...

Inspired Subjectivity and Hermeneutical Objectivity

Objectivity is the goal of hermeneutics so that the text of Scripture may speak for itself. For an interpreter to bring his subjective views to the text jeopardizes the authority o f the Word. Two forces at work among evangelicals today tend to increase the subjective element in interpretation. The first is the principle of the analogy of faith or the harmonizing of different texts with one ano...

on Its Order of Revelation

Among the issues in Quranic fields, interpretation of Quran based on the order of revelation has attracted the attention of many practitioners of this field. This group believes that this style of interpretation has a unique role in discovering psychological, educational, ethical, social and political aspects of Quran verses among which are gradual progresses against polytheists and unbelievers...

Notes on the Revelation Principle

This set of lecture notes covers a general model of adverse selection as well as a leading example— that of a price discriminating monopolist— due to Maskin and Riley (1984). At the end of this unit, students should understand the application of the revelation principal to this class of models, the general solution techniques, and the key economic trade-o¤— e¢ ciency versus information rent sav...