(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
There are now countless hip-hop-lyric exegetical sites that try to resolve what is being said.
It is presented by the author in full exegetical mode
any formal textual exegesis at all, whether it be Russian formalist, New Critical, phenomenologist, or structuralist
require a full-scale exegesis of a text
muffle the political imperative in the untroubled exegesis of a classified work
his own prose, built of solid blocks of exegesis and description
a recent exegete regards Lenininism as a psychopathological phenomenon
On the Jewish Question of 1843, which contains the famous exegesis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
The exegetical artifice may not be enough