different between eisegesis vs eisegete

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??? (eis, “into”) and English exegesis. Historically unrelated to the Ancient Greek ????????? (eis?g?sis, “proposing, advising”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?s??d?i?s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a?s??d?is?s/

Noun

eisegesis (plural eisegeses)

1. An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that is not there.
   • 2008 [1982], Jacques More, Leadership is Male? eBook, page 28,

     I include this here in that as well as finding things out of context (eisegesis – things read into a text) I also found errors of accuracy which also contributed to my not trusting other parts of writings of authors for women in leadership.

Related terms

• exegesis

English

Noun

eisegete (plural eisegetes)

1. A person who places meaning on a text which is not originally or inherently present in the text itself.

Antonyms

• exegete

Verb

eisegete (third-person singular simple present eisegetes, present participle eisegeting, simple past and past participle eisegeted)

1. To place meaning on a text which is not originally or inherently present in the text itself
   • Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments edited by Yvonne Sherwood, Kevin Hart (page 255) (Routledge, ?ISBN [1]

     And nowhere does that nongivenness appear more clearly, paradoxial as that may be, than in the image of Jesus writing something that we readers cannot read, cannot exegete or eisegete, and therefore cannot deconstruct.

Antonyms

• exegete

Related terms

• eisegesis