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eisegesis

noun
/aɪsɪˈdʒiːsɪs/UK/aɪsɪˈd͡ʒisɪs/US

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εἰς (eis, “into”) and English exegesis. Historically unrelated to the Ancient Greek εἰσήγησις (eisḗgēsis, “proposing, advising”).

  1. derived from εἰσήγησις — “proposing, advising”
  2. derived from exegesis

Definitions

  1. An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint…

    An interpretation, especially of Scripture, that reflects the personal ideas or viewpoint of the interpreter; reading something into a text that is not there.

    • To be sure, there are those who are more sophisticated in their dogmatic eisegeses, but the offense is not thereby lessened.
    • This is only one of a plethora of eisegeses by which images of Mary were detected in the OT.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eisegesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA