Essential Security Interests of States - Some Observations on the Emerging Practice under International Law by Joanna Połatyńska

“…The method is based on the exegetical analysis of jurisprudence of international courts, tribunals and dispute settlement bodies in cases concerning interpretation of essential security interest clauses. …”
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Context, Context, Context: Athanasius’ Biblical Interpretation in Contra Arianos by Fairbairn Donald

“…While the choice of which texts to discuss is dictated by the need to consider those texts that were evidently important in the Arians’ own exegetical arguments, the order in which Athanasius discusses them derives from his desire to begin with biblical texts that clearly describe the whole sweep of biblical redemption. …”
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Assessing the Mode of Biblical Interpretation in the Light of African Biblical Hermeneutics: The Case of the Mother-Tongue Biblical Interpretation in Ghana by Emmanuel Kojo Ennin Antwi

“…Though this enterprise is recommendable to African exegetes, it is a special area of biblical studies in search of a standard methodological approach. …”
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In Defence of Pashukanism by R Koen

“…These are that the general theory is too abstract to comprehend the reality of legal relations; that it is infused with economic reductionism; that it derives the legal form wrongly from commodity exchange; that it classifies the legal form incorrectly as an attribute of capitalism only; that it lacks the generality required of a general theory of law; and that it is imbricated in the growth of anarchism and Stalinism. Following a brief exegetical exercise, the bulk of the essay is devoted to demonstrating in detail that each of the six objections to the general theory is without merit, and that none makes any serious incursion into its integrity as a theory of the legal form. …”
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Relevansi Supremasi Kristus Bagi Pemberitaan Injil di Indonesia by Kalis Stevanus

“…In the context of a pluralist Indonesian society, the author tries to give an understanding of the supremacy of Christ and its relevance to the preaching of the Gospel based on John 14:6 so that Christians are not influenced by pluralism. Through the exegetical approach to the text of the Gospel of John 14:6, it is obtained the meaning of the supremacy of Christ which is stated by John that He is the only way of salvation or the true Savior. …”
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"As it is said in a Sutra": Freedom and variation in quotations from the Buddhist scriptures in early Bka'-gdams-pa literature by Roesler, U

“…Did they study Buddhism through original Sūtras or exegetical literature? To what degree was the text of the scriptures fixed and standardised before the Bka’ ’gyur and the Bstan ’gyur were compiled? …”

The Unknown Known: Some Groundwork for Interpreting the Medinan Qur'an by Sinai, N

“…Hence, quite irrespective of whether or not one accepts the traditional dating and localisation of the Qur’an’s emergence, it may well seem that the Qur’anic corpus is a text that, properly understood, is more solidly anchored in the world of late antiquity rather than belonging with the subsequent Islamic tradition, despite the latter’s highly creative and sophisticated efforts at exegetical appropriation. The Qur’an, so it might appear, is a text that precedes Islam as we know it, and Islam a post-Qur’anic phenomenon. …”

God as Guardian and Enemy of the Human Soul/Life. The Cultural and Theological Code of the nepeš in 1 Sam 25:29 by Dariusz Antoni Dziadosz, Arkadiusz Wojnicki

“…This publication, using the historical-critical method, analyses the meaning of the concept of nepeš in 1 Sam 25:29 to show on this basis: (1) literary, editorial and historical-cultural background of this verse in the context of the whole cycle of tradition: 1 Sam 16:1 – 2 Sam 5:5; (2) exegetical analysis of nepeš and other key terms used in 1 Sam 25:29; (3) theological ideas present in the Hebrew text and their implications for the biblical concept of the human soul. …”
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Analytical Semantics of the Verse "Say, What Would My Lord Care for You If Not for Your Supplication? For You [Disbelievers] Have Denied, So Your Denial Is Going to Be Adherent" fr... by Mohsen Khoshfar, Sahar Dadkhah, zohrehsadat hosaini

“…The descriptive analysis of the exegeses relying on five factors, namely 1. the addressee of the verse, 2. fact checking for either subjective and objective roles attributed to “Kom”, 3. dating for the exegetical narrations, 4. the context and content of the verses in the aforementioned Surah, and 5. the analysis of the relative narrations shows that idiomatic meaning of the term “prayer” is not intended in the verse and the second approach is more appropriate.  …”
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2 Timothy 2:15 and the ordained and self-styled Nigerian ministers of God who twist the gospel by Chidinma P. Ukeachusim

“…Consequently, this study exegetically examines the theological implications of some Nigerian ministers of God twisting the gospel for an array of reasons and the need for them to be very apt and meticulous in studying, interpreting and applying the word of truth in the light of 2 Timothy 2:15. …”
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Exergy-Based Efficiency Assessment of Fans vs. Isentropic Efficiency by Johannes Brötz, Christian Schänzle, Peter F. Pelz

“…In this paper, we derive the exegetic efficiency taking the second law of thermodynamics into account. …”
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A Study of the Traditional Sources of the Commentary of al-Mīzān and the Intermediator Reflection of the Narrations from the Early Sources by Rasul Mohammadjafari, Hosein Mohagheghi

“…It is worth mentioning that the purpose of this paper is not to criticize Allamah’s way, for his method was as the same as the previous scholars’, but rather it seeks to demonstrate that while using al-Mīzan’s exegetical narratives the researches may not find themselves needless of considering and referring to the original sources of narratives.…”
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Sovereignty and Natural Rights: A Comparative Review Based on Hobbes' Interpretations of the Holy Scriptures and Allāma Tabātabā’ī's Exegeses of the Qur'an by Hassan Ghasemi

“…What is the correlation between God's treaty with humans and social contract in the exegetical texts of these two philosophers? How do religious statements become binding and legal? …”
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SOWING IN TEARS AND REAPING IN JOY: PSALM 125. 5–6 IN THE INTERPRETATION OF SAINT AUGUSTINE by Sergey Stepantsov

“…This exposition is actually more thematic than exegetical. The main points of this homily include the idea of an explanation of the various reasons for tears shed by people during their earthly lives (the tears of martyrs, the tears deriving from earthly pains and sorrows, the tears of a just man separated from his God). …”
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Biblical principles as an answer to the African people�s questioning of witchcraft by David K. Semenya, Rantoa Letsosa

“…This article has attempted to identify, from a historical-grammatical exegetical point of view, a number of biblical principles on witchcraft that could be set as guidelines for addressing witchcraft-related matters and to obtain a clearer picture on Scripture�s teachings regarding witchcraft. …”
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From abstraction to unsaying: how the Eunomian controversy changed Gregory of Nyssa’s aphairetic ethics to an apophatic ethics by Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch

“…This was the case for Gregory of Nyssa who applied forms of negative theology in his spiritual and exegetical works as well as in his polemical works, especially those against Eunomius. …”
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Was der Religionspädagogik zu denken gibt. Exegetische Denkanstöße. by Jeremia Josef M. Mayr

“…ENGLISH: The following article addresses three exegetical impulses which should be understood as food for thought to religious education. …”
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A Bible translation inspired look at the history and ethnography of the Batswana by Sidney K. Berman

“…This proposal arose more frequently for Moffat, who appears to have struggled more, not because of his exegetical understanding of the text, but because his audience’s familiarity with JudeoChristian concepts was nil. …”
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On the Origin and Conceptual Development of ‘Essence-Function’ (<i>ti-yong</i>) by Sun-hyang Kwon, Jeson Woo

“…It is, however, through the influence of Buddhism that &#8216;essence&#8217; and &#8216;function&#8217; became a paradigm used as an exegetical, hermeneutical and syncretic tool for interpreting Chinese philosophical works. …”
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Interpreting the Hannah narrative (1 Sm 1:1–20) in light of the attitude of the church in Nigeria towards childlessness by Solomon O. Ademiluka

“…Hence, employing the exegetical approach and contextual analysis, this article examines the narrative in relation to the attitude of the church in Nigeria towards the problem of barrenness among its members. …”
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