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Wednesday, April 8 | 5:00 pm | Stuart Hall, Room 6 Reception to follow
This lecture interrogates that classic practice of biblical studies and other textual disciplines: exegesis. It reconsiders what kinds of reading count as exegesis, and it questions the commonplace that defines exegesis over against its supposed contrast term: eisegesis. Examining the ancient Greek lexicon from which we ostensibly get these terms, and drawing on examples from ancient Jewish and Christian readers, the lecture proposes to pay respect to (the kind of reading we usually mean by the word) exegesis and also to salvage the reputation of poor, much-maligned eisegesis.
Matthew Novenson is the Helen H. P. Manson Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is also an honorary fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, where previously he held the Chair of Biblical Criticism and Biblical Antiquities. He is the author of Christ among the Messiahs (Oxford University Press, 2012), The Grammar of Messianism (Oxford University Press, 2017), Paul, Then and Now (Eerdmans, 2022), and Paul and Judaism at the End of History (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and the editor of Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Brill, 2020) and The Oxford Handbook of Pauline Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022). He is also founder and co-editor of the book series Edinburgh Studies in Religion in Antiquity (Edinburgh University Press) and associate editor of the journal New Testament Studies.
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