Exclusivity and Variety: Pespectives on Multidimensional Exegesis

Andrea Rassell exegesis

Recovering Origen’s Pauline Exegesis: Exegesis and Eschatology in the Commentary on Ephesians

Origen’s Commentary on Ephesians is preserved only in fragments excerpted in a Byzantine catena, which are inadequate for reconstructing Origen’s interpretation of this letter. This article investigates the possibility that a commentary on the same text by Jerome preserves the interplay in Origen’s commentary between the investigation of specific exegetical problems and the interpretation of th...

Rothbard on Money: a Critical Textual Exegesis

In 1998 I presented a paper which argued that no theory of money was possible—in the sense of there being a stable relationship between a few explanatory variables. The argument was based on the assumption that we were dealing with an economy of informed maximizers. The good that individuals choose to use as money depends on the solution of an optimization problem—of all available goods, which ...

Exclusivity and Control

We model competition between content distributors (platforms) for content providers, and show that whether or not content is exclusive or “multihomes” depends crucially on whether or not content providers maintain control over their own pricing to consumers: if content providers sell their content outright and relinquish control, they will tend to be exclusive; on the other hand, if content pro...

Exclusivity, uniqueness, and definiteness

An utterance of (2a) means of course that there is only one author of Waverley – indeed, that is most likely one’s point when one uses (2a). But (2b) can mean that there is strictly more than one author of Waverley, on the reading that can be paraphrased, ‘It’s not the case that only Scott is an author of Waverley’. In (2c) the question may concern the number of authors; if the answer is no, th...