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exegete

Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exegete

"one who expounds or interprets a literary production," 1730s, from Greek exegetes "an expounder, interpreter" (especially of the Bible), from exegeisthai (see exegesis).

Wiktionary
exegete

n. A person skilled in exegesis; an interpreter. vb. (context chiefly religion English) To interpret; to perform an exegesis.

WordNet
exegete

n. a person skilled in exegesis (especially of religious texts)

Usage examples of "exegete".

But, as this method implied the acknowledgment of a sacred literature, Origen was an exegete who believed in the Holy Scriptures and indeed, at bottom, he viewed all theology as a methodical exegesis of Holy Writ.

We needed no commentators or exegetes on our simple Bible in those days.

Both as an exegete and as a typologist he appears as a disciple of the Pharisees.

Doctor planus et utilis, the famous exegete, was born at Lyra in Normandy, 1270.