The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exegetist \Ex`e*ge"tist\, n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation; -- also called exegete.
Wiktionary
n. One versed in the science of exegesis or interpretation.
Usage examples of "exegetist".
But this objection likewise falls to the ground, because a German exegetist supposes that Jonah must have taken refuge in the floating body of a dead whale-- even as the French soldiers in the Russian campaign turned their dead horses into tents, and crawled into them.
In Hoffmann this is a learned old Jew of Smyrna, exegetist of the Koran, in Gogol a sorcerer in the tradition of Ukrainian poetry, in Dostoyevsky a mystic sectarian.
Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver--an inflated bag of wind--which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.
Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver--an inflated bag of wind--which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.
Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life preserver — an inflated bag of wind — which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.
Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver—an inflated bag of wind—which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.