Like the night of majesty (Layla al-Qadr) in the month of Ramadan, the nights that herald the first 10 days of this month - the month of Dhul Hijjah - equally enjoy Qur'anic validation. In other words ...

If it were true, as some Protestant exegetes claim, that Jesus is allowing for divorce after adultery, then that would lead to some very strange church discipline. Anyone wanting out of a marriage ...

Islamic scholarly tradition, spanning centuries from classical exegetes like Al-Ghazali and Fakhr al-Din al-Razi to contemporary thinkers, unanimously interprets this narrative as allegorical and ...

etc.). He also created the Italian website Nella Parola (“In the Word”), which features biblical commentaries by him and other exegetes. His recent catecheses for the general public on his ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an ...

Some exegetes see these two crossings as a prefiguration of baptism. In all four Gospels, Jesus' public life begins with his baptism in the waters of the Jordan River by his cousin John the Baptist.

For a long time, it has been assumed that the prohibitions on same-sex sexual activity were permanent. But serious historians and faithful exegetes have come to question this, pointing out that, in ...

Particularly, many Catholic theologians and exegetes have seen in the Gospel of John's repeated allusions to the vision of the Father by the earthly, pre-paschal Jesus of Nazareth a strong ...