eisegete (pluraleisegetes)
- A person who placesmeaning on atext which is not originally or inherently present in the text itself.
eisegete (third-person singular simple presenteisegetes,present participleeisegeting,simple past and past participleeisegeted)
- 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 oreisegete, and therefore cannot deconstruct.
