This article grows out of two dominant perceptions that I have developed through my work with theological students and teachers. The first of these perceptions is that there is strong and growing interest in patristic interpretation of the Bible among evangelical biblical scholars and theologians. The second perception is that virtually all biblical studies students and professors I have encoun...

the amount of reliability on outward aspects of the quran and the role of traditions in it has been one of the linguistic basics of the holy quran and it has allocated to itself a large volume of principled and hermeneutical subjects. we faced two sets of statements in teachings of imam ali (pbuh). the first category are the evidences that it may be understood from them authority and validity o...

one of the exegetical methods coming into focus in the contemporary era due to the efforts of allameh tabatabai and then by ayatollah javadi-amoli is the quran-to-quran interpretive method. various arguments have been proposed for the validity of this method. one of these is that the traditional islamic narratives consider the quran as the criterion for assessing the validity of narrative. by t...

Exegesis is a procedure to refine the gene predictions that are produced for complex genomes, e.g. those of humans and mice. It uses the program Genewise, sequences determined by experiment, experimental maps of gene segment libraries and a new browser that allows the user to rapidly inspect and compare multiple gene maps to regions of genomic sequences. The procedure should be of general use. ...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

The interpretation of Old Testament theophanies was crucial for early Christianity’s theological appropriation of the sacred history of Israel, and igured signiicantly in the antiJewish, anti-dualistic, and anti-monarchian polemics of the second and third centuries. A Christian continuator of Philo’s “noetic exegesis,” Clement of Alexandria inaugurates an approach to theophanies that is differe...

In the pages to follow I shall examine exegetical, doctrinal, hymnographic, and iconographic productions that illustrate the rich reception history of Isa 6 in early Christianity. It appears that the earliest, Christological interpretation of this text was superseded by a Trinitarian one and that the exegetical shift occurred first in doctrinal and exegetical writings, while hymnography and ico...