* John Brown ( theologian ) ( 1722 – 1787 ), Scottish clergyman and Biblical commentator

* Rabbi David Kimhi, Biblical commentator ( b. 1160 )

In the 11th century, Jewish bible commentator Rashi writes of a Biblical tradition that the name Dāgôn is related to Hebrew dāg / dâg ' fish ' and that Dagon was imagined in the shape of a fish: compare the Babylonian fish-god Oannes.

** John Kitto, Biblical commentator ( born 1804 )

* October 23-Wilhelm Gesenius, Biblical commentator

* March 24-Johann Jakob Griesbach, Biblical commentator ( born 1745 )

* October 30-Christopher Wordsworth, Biblical editor and commentator, nephew of William Wordsworth ( died 1885 )

* June 22-Matthew Henry, Biblical commentator ( born 1662 )

* January 4-Johann Jakob Griesbach, Biblical commentator ( died 1812 )

* February 14-Thomas Newton, Biblical commentator ( born 1704 )

* May 13-Richard Simon, Biblical commentator ( died 1712 )

** Aharon Ibn Hayyim, Biblical and Talmudic commentator

* May 10-Samuel Newman, Biblical commentator ( died 1663 )

* June 5 – John Trapp, Biblical commentator ( died 1669 )

* February 13-Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit Biblical commentator ( born 1515 )

* September 8-Johann Wild, Biblical commentator ( born 1497 )

In Biblical exegesis, the opposite of exegesis ( to draw out ) is eisegesis ( to draw in ), in the sense of an eisegetic commentator " importing " or " drawing in " his or her own purely subjective interpretations in to the text, unsupported by the text itself.

Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno ( Obadja Sforno, Hebrew: עובדיה ספורנו ) was an Italian rabbi, Biblical commentator, philosopher and physician.

According to the great Biblical commentator Rashi, Kiryat Arba (" Town of Arba ") means either the town ( kirya ) of Arba, the giant who had three sons, or the town of the four giants: Anak ( the son of Arba ) and his three sons-Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi-who are described as being the sons of a " giant " in: " On the way through the Negev, they ( Joshua and Caleb ) came to Hebron where saw Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmi, descendants of the Giant ( ha-anak )..." Some say that Anak (" Giant ", see Anak ) is a proper name ( Targum Jonathan and the Septuagint ), and that he, Anak, may have been the father of the three others mentioned in the Book of Numbers as living in Hebron, previously known as " Kiryat Arba.

The exposition is unlikely to be influenced by material from outside the Bible ( though such material may be mentioned in the sermon, for example the writings of a commentator on the passage ), but instead involves detailed comparison of one Biblical text with other texts on the same subject in order to reach a synthesis.

Medieval Biblical commentator Abraham ibn Ezra writes that the word niddah is related to the term menadechem ( מנדיכם ), meaning those that cast you out.

Hermann Hupfeld ( March 31, 1796 – April 24, 1866 ), German Orientalist and Biblical commentator, was born at Marburg, where he studied philosophy and theology from 1813 to 1817.

ישראל בן משה נאג ' ארה Yisrael ben Moshe Najarah ) was a Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist, and rabbi of Gaza.

* Isaac ben Samuel or the Ri ha-Zaken, a 12th-century French tosafist and Biblical commentator

Image: Grabplatte Johann Wauer Hochkirch. jpg | Lengthy epitaph for Johann Wauer a ( German pastor ), died 1728, concluding with a short Biblical quotation

The busy pastor or speaker, searching the Scriptures for a message, will find the Biblical Cyclopedic Index one of the most helpful tools to the explication of the Scriptures available in published form today.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

* McClintock, John, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

Biblical scholar John Elliott notes that the author explicitly urges the addressees to respect authority ( 2: 13 ) and even honor the emperor ( 2: 17 ), strongly suggesting that they were unlikely to be suffering from official Roman persecution.

* 1 John from the Biblical Resource Database

* Provan, Iain William, Long, V. Philips, Longman, Tremper, " A Biblical History of Israel " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 2003 )

Divergences between the passage's presentation and the Biblical accounts of John include baptism for those whose souls have already been " purified beforehand by righteousness " is for purification of the body, not general repentance of sin ( Mark 1: 4 ).

Biblical scholar John Dominic Crossan differentiates between Josephus's account of John and Jesus like this: " John had a monopoly, but Jesus had a franchise.

Puritan millennialism has been placed in the broader context of European Reformed views on the millennium and interpretation of Biblical prophecy, for which representative figures of the period were Johannes Piscator, Thomas Brightman, Joseph Mede, Johannes Heinrich Alsted, and John Amos Comenius.

Christian authors of late antiquity such as Origen, Jerome, St. Ignatius, John Chrysostom, and Augustine interpreted meanings of Biblical texts within a highly asceticized religious environment.

* Elisabeth ( Biblical person ), the mother of John the Baptist

* John Howard Yoder-Prominent Mennonite theologian and ethicist and Biblical scholar

In paintings and statues most of the Old Testament Biblical characters such as Moses and Abraham and Jesus ' New Testament disciples such as St Peter are with beard, as was John the Baptist.

The church contains Biblical paintings, a colossal statue of Christ seated between the Virgin Mary and St John ( 13th century, originally belonging to the cathedral of Thérouanne and presented by the emperor Charles V ), the cenotaph of Saint Audomare ( Omer ) ( 13th century ) and numerous ex-votos.

Dispensationalism, in contrast to the Millerite Adventist movement, had its beginning in the 19th century, when John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren religious denomination, incorporated into his system of Biblical interpretation a system of organizing Biblical time into a number of discrete dispensations, each of which marks a separate covenant with God.

In the same periodical, in the course of 1788 and 1789, appeared the Letters to Archdeacon Travis, against George Travis, on the debated Biblical verse called the Comma Johanneum ( 1 John 5: 7 ); the Letters were collected in 1790 into a volume.

* M ' Clintock, John, and James Strong, " Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature " ( New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1880 ).