Nicholas Tacitus Zegers ( c. 1495 – 25 August 1559 ) was a Flemish Franciscan biblical exegete.

Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, (" ha-Nakdan ", meaning " the punctuator " or " grammarian "), commonly known as Berachya, ( 13th century ) was a Jewish exegete, ethical writer, grammarian, translator, poet, and philosopher.

Since 1990, the Vălenii summer school has functioned regularly, having Iorga exegete Valeriu Râpeanu as a regular guest.

Amin Ahsan Islahi, a renowned exegete of the Qur ' an, has mentioned that since Arabs once used such letters in their poetry, it was only appropriate for the Qur ' an to use that same style.

He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called " main-line " Puritanism.

He seems to have received the ordinary Christian scriptures ; and Origen, who treats him as a notable exegete, has preserved fragments of a commentary by him on the fourth gospel, while Clement of Alexandria quotes from him what appears to be a passage from a commentary on Luke.

As an exegete he has composed several commentaries ( Genesis, Exodus, Deuteronomy, 1 and 2 Samuel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah ).

Eusebius ( c. AD 263 – 339 ) ( also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili ) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian polemicist.

To sum up: Without being a great dogmatician like his master, nor a creative genius in the ecclesiastical realm, Beza had qualities which made him famous as humanist, exegete, orator, and leader in religious and political affairs, and qualified him to be the guide of the Calvinists in all Europe.

* Javed Ahmad Ghamidi is a well-known Pakistani Islamic scholar, exegete, and educator.

As an exegete he exercised a powerful influence on theological investigation.

) A famous jurist, exegete, critic, preacher and a prolific author, with works on nearly all subjects.

* August 25-Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, Bible exegete ( born c. 1495 )

A moderately liberal theologian, he became best known as a New Testament critic and exegete, being the author of the Commentary on the Synoptics ( 1889 ; 3rd ed., 1901 ), the Johannine books ( 1890 ; 2nd ed., 1893 ), and the Acts of the Apostles ( 1901 ), in the series Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament.

In his necessary reliance on the mediation of concepts to tell the story, the exegete cannot aspire to the uniqueness of Abraham's condition.

Italian exegete, philosopher, and physician ; born at Cesena about 1475 ; died at Bologna in 1550.

* Saadia Gaon-Ninth century rabbi, philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period.

* Abdul Majid Daryabadi, Muslim writer and exegete of the Qur ' an ( b. 1892 ).

Tomaso Malvenda ( 1566 – 7 May 1628 ) was a Spanish Dominican exegete and historical critic.

The other great work of Bengel, and that on which his reputation as an exegete is mainly based, is his Gnomon Novi Testamenti, or Exegetical Annotations on the New Testament, published in 1742.

But properly to estimate that influence, it must be remembered that 3, 000 ministers of the Gospel passed under his instruction, and that to him was accorded the rare privilege, during the course of a long life, of achieving distinction as a teacher, exegete, preacher, controversialist, ecclesiastic, and systematic theologian.

* Yohanan Alemanno ( c. 1435 – after 1504 ), Italian Jewish humanist philosopher and exegete

Ellul was first introduced to the ideas of Karl Marx during an economics lecture course taught by Joseph Benzacar in 1929 –– 1930 ; Ellul studied Marx and became a prolific exegete of his theories.

Yefet claims full freedom for the exegete, refusing to admit any authority for the interpretation of the Law ; and, although he sometimes uses the thirteen hermeneutic rules laid down in the Mishnah, he denies their authority: they are to be applied, he claims, only when it is not possible to explain the passage literally.

Śrī Ramanuja ( traditionally 1017 – 1137, also known as Śrī Ramanujacharya, Udayavar, Ethirajar ( Yatiraja ), Emberumannar, Lakshmana Muni ) was a theologian, philosopher, and scriptural exegete.

He was also considered an important musician, poet, dramatist, exegete, theologian, and logician-a polymathic personality who exercised strong influences on Indian culture.

The antiquity of the creed has been located by most biblical scholars to no more than five years after Jesus ' death, probably originating from the Jerusalem apostolic community.

Although its decisions are accepted by all Christians, and still observed in full by the Greek Orthodox, and later definitions of an ecumenical council appear to conform to this sole biblical Council, no Christian church calls it a mere ecumenical council, instead it is called the " Apostolic Council " or " Council of Jerusalem ".

Dating of remains to the biblical history is made difficult by the Bible's lack of datable events and its unreliable internal chronology ; the interpretation of remains has been influenced by religious and nationalistic arguments, as evidenced by arguments over burials from the highland settlement phase ; and no material remains have been found which can reliably separate Israelite from non-Israelite ( Canaanite ) sites in the earliest period.

While many variations have been discovered between early copies of biblical texts, almost all have no importance, as they are variations in spelling, punctuation, or grammar.

While there is no clear answer as to why, this custom of leaving pebbles may date back to biblical days when individuals were buried under piles of stones.

The marble capitals are each carved with foliage, biblical scenes and allegories, no two being alike.

Alternatively, the biblical descriptions of Sinai can be interpreted as describing a volcano, and so a small number of scholars have considered equating Sinai with locations in northwestern Saudi Arabia ; there are no volcanoes in the Sinai Peninsula.

The biblical account continues by stating that Moses was told by Hashem that the daughters should be considered their father's heirs, and that the general case holds-if there are no sons, the daughter ( or daughters ) should inherit-and if there are no children at all, the inheritance should pass to the man's brothers, and if there are no brothers it should pass to the nearest relative in his clan.

James D. G. Dunn and separately Delbert Burkett state that the interpretation of the use of " the Son of man " in the New Testament is a prime example of the limits of biblical interpretation in that after 150 years of debate no consensus on the issue has emerged.

Besides altarpieces and portraits he painted pictures that told no story, whether biblical or classical, or if they professed to tell a story, neglected the action and simply embodied in form and color moods of lyrical or romantic feeling, much as a musician might embody them in sounds.

There were no more mythological, biblical, and fictional names, nor the names of buildings, historical events, or art works.

Moreover the biblical account makes no claim that they directly governed the areas included in their empires which are portrayed instead as tributaries.

Further, biblical minimalists hold that the twelve tribes of Israel were a later construction, the stories of King David and King Saul were modeled upon later Irano-Hellenistic examples, and that there is no archaeological evidence that the united kingdom of Israel, which the Bible says that David and Solomon ruled over an empire from the Euphrates to Eilath, ever existed.

In Judaism, there is no classical or formal recognition of saints, but there is a long history of reverence shown toward biblical heroes and martyrs.

Biblical scholar Thomas L. Thompson notes that the methods of " biblical archaeology " have also become outmoded: " and Albright's historical interpretation can make no claim to be objective, proceeding as it does from a methodology which distorts its data by selectivity which is hardly representative, which ignores the enormous lack of data for the history of the early second millennium, and which wilfully establishes hypotheses on the basis of unexamined biblical texts, to be proven by such ( for this period ) meaningless mathematical criteria as the ' balance of probability ' ..."

Muir biographer Steven Holmes notes that Muir used words like " glory " and " glorious " to suggest that light was taking on a religious dimension: " It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the notion of glory in Muir's published writings, where no other single image carries more emotional or religious weight ," adding that his words " exactly parallels its Hebraic origins ," in which biblical writings often indicate a divine presence with light, as in the burning bush or pillar of fire, and described as " the glory of God.

# Diabolical Oppression, in which there is no loss of consciousness or involuntary action, such as in the biblical Book of Job in which Job was tormented by a series of misfortunes in business, family, and health ;

With the exception of a few fragments in the prophets, virtually no biblical text is contemporaneous with the events it describes, and every part was subject to revision by later authors.

Stoddard explained that there was no biblical justification for allowing only regenerate members to take communion.

They believe that other modes either have no biblical basis or are based upon inexact Old Testament rituals, and that their mode is the only one described in the New Testament.

Some biblical passages state that God has no presence in the underworld: " In death there is no remembrance of Thee, in Sheol who shall give Thee thanks?