the literary approach to quranic interpretations is founded on words, morphology, syntax and rhetoric. however, contemporary literary school, in addition to these principles, takes into account other principles like authenticating solely the literary understanding. comparing sayyid murtazā's literary approach with the principles and ideas of sheikh tusi in al-tibyan reveals various aspects...

Among exegetes, Philippians has been sort of a "Rubik's Cube" of the Pauline literature. Many times it has been twisted, turned, and rearranged as scholars have attempted to make the best sense they could of it. They have sensed that the book has no central theme systematically developed in a logical argument throughout the epistle. "Since the early days of historical critical research, exegete...

Because Christian rites of ordination regularly involve the imposition of hands, scholars generally recognize the importance of understanding this practice. Instituted early in the church's development and thus in dose proximity with its Jewish origins, the imposition of hands has been thought by scholars to stem most likely from OT roots.' Jewish exegetes and Pentateuchal critical scholars hav...

Educated by generations of grammarians who state that the term sanguis (blood) is used only in singular, Fathers Church, exegetes, and commentators were confronted with about twenty scriptural, essentially veterotestimentary tokens where plural. Justifications for this particular use appear throughout commentaries. My study will attempt to answer a series questions. Which passages interested mo...

The human is a creature whose being is filled with instinctive and innate qualities. One of these qualities is the “Halū‘iyyat” which is noted in the Qur’ān 70:19 and discusses the sensitivity of the human to the good and the evil. There is a disagreement among the exegetes with regard to the interpretation of this verse. This article has adopted a descriptive-analytical method to examine the o...

Abstract In this paper, I draw attention to comparative preference claims, i.e. sentences of the form $$\ulcorner $$ ⌜ S prefers p q $$\urcorner ⌝ . show that claims exhibit interesting patterns, and try develop a semantics captures them. Then use my account provide an analysis desire. The re...

Sunni exegetes repeatedly assert the authority of Qur’an to explain itself, and prophetic tradition (ḥadīth) or early interpretations when explanations cannot be found in Qur’an. Yet treatment that Queen Sheba receives by reveals that, contrary their assertions, they are influenced products cultural social milieux. This leads increasingly androcentric accretions exegetical depart noticeably fro...

Abstract This article examines the interpretation of Hebrew prophecy by German Protestant scholars in era 1880–1920. It argues, first, that Old Testament interpreters valued prophets since they presented God as guiding force behind human history and, second, these theologians cum philologians saw prophetic conception anticipating their own understanding world. The inquiry bases this argument on...

besides the necessity of gaining the prerequisites of tafsir, the views of the early scholars about these prerequisites also had to be considered. the present article is to make clear that most of the exegetes did not really meet the prerequisites mentioned in their own preface. it also discuses about the preliminary sciences to tafsir which may be classified into seven general groups with some...