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Exegete

noun
1.
A person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts).





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... particular ethical value; and, finally, for the esoteric circle of Hellenic-Jewish philosophers, a theological and psychological study of the allegories of the law. Origen, the first great Christian exegete of the Bible and a close student of the Philonic writings, distinguished three forms of interpreting: the historical, the moral, and the philosophical; he probably took the distinction from Philo, ...
— Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria • Norman Bentwich


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