exegetic

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There are songs, too, as in Brecht’s original text — exegetic tunes that the characters break into — set to new music by Sam Day Harmet, who performs here with Erica Mancini and Stephen LaRosa.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

Attempts to make sense of the disjuncture and of what it may entail or suggest fill library shelves of exegetic prose.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 25, 2019

Geiger 158 won a name for himself by his studies on the French exegetic school.

From Rashi by Szold, Adele

Now the passages which require exegetic manipulation are in general those which seem opposed to reason.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

His other works consisted of theological essays, ascetic or exegetic, questions of ecclesiastical discipline and reform, and of various polemical writings called forth for the most part by the schism.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg