Exegesis: 'Exegesis involves reading out of the text, seeking the original author's intended meaning through careful analysis of the text's context and language.'

The definition is accurate as stated. It is worth noting, in fairness to the discipline, that mainstream evangelical and Catholic biblical scholarship (Walter Kaiser, Gordon Fee, Craig Blomberg, Brant Pitre, John Walton, Gordon Wenham) explicitly holds authors, translators, and preachers to grammatical-historical standards, cross-checked against Hebrew and Greek syntax, ANE comparative context (John Walton, *The Lost World of Genesis One*; James Hoffmeier on Egyptological background), and textual-critical evidence (Bruce Metzger). Where the spreadsheet's broader project alleges that a particular Christian reading of a particular passage fails this standard, that has to be assessed case by case against the actual grammar and context of that text, not asserted wholesale; the discipline of exegesis this entry correctly defines is itself the standing methodological check against exactly the kind of imposition the objector is worried about, and its rigorous practice within evangelical and critical scholarship alike (not its absence) is the norm being appealed to whenever a specific interpretive dispute in this project is adjudicated.

The two-and-a-half-millennia continuity of Jewish and Christian exegetical tradition (from the Masoretes and rabbinic peshat readings through Reformation grammatical-historical method to modern critical commentary) gives interpreters cross-checking resources — original languages, versions (LXX, Vulgate, Targums), manuscript history, ANE parallels — that make disciplined exegesis, as opposed to free-floating eisegesis, a genuinely achievable and widely practiced standard.