Sentence examples for tradition of interpretation from inspiring English sources

Her sermon was thus part of a necessary, continuing tradition of interpretation.

The human rights activist: "But there is a tradition of interpretation in Shariah, we may need to adapt parts of it to the modern world".

The Greek translation of Isaiah by Jewish scholars (the Septuagint), accomplished before the Christian Era, reflects a developing tradition of interpretation; it renders the Hebrew ʿalma ("young woman") as parthenos ("virgin") in the verse (7:14) about Immanuel, thus drawing Isaiah further into the messianic ring.

Variations in this tradition of interpretation occur for two primary reasons, namely the unfolding of world events and continual but gradual revelation from Jehovah (8).

Two major traditions of interpretation have provided the basic assumptions of religious eschatologies and have often found expression in mortuary rituals and funerary practice.

All music, that is, encourages particular kinds of reactions among its listeners; all music participates in traditions of interpretation; all music has the ability to inspire resonant understandings or sympathies.

Modern understanding of the Philosophy of Roger Bacon is largely conditioned by two distinct traditions of interpretation from the nineteenth century.

Despite the polarity generated by two separate modern traditions of interpretation, it should be noted that there is great continuity between the interests of Bacon the Aristotelian commentator and Bacon the writer on science.

Islam has a tradition of vigorous interpretation and adjustment, called ijtihad, but Koranic interpretation remains frozen in the model of classical commentaries written nearly two centuries after the prophet's death.

Although there is a long tradition of exegetical interpretation of the text of the Hebrew Bible, as well as of the grammatical characteristics of its language, and much recent work has been done in the application of modern linguistic methods to the grammar of Biblical Hebrew, there is still much to be done from a systemic functional perspective.

Having explored the Islamic background, we might additionally note that Maimonides himself associates the tradition of allegorical interpretation of Biblical texts with Rabbinic writing strategies; as such, we may say that Maimonides sees a kinship between philosophical allegorization and a Biblical and Rabbinic Jewish hermeneutic at the heart of Judaism.