exegetist

noun

ex·​e·​get·​ist ˌek-sə-ˈjē-tist  -ˈje- 

plural exegetists

: one who practices exegesis : exegete

Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver …

—Herman Melville

The exegetists have discovered and interpreted to the world all the obvious and hidden meanings of the letter …

—The New York Times

… although the literature which has accumulated about him is voluminous, it lacks the unconscious humor of the customary classical exegetists …

—Ernest Augustus Boyd

Word History

First Known Use

1829, in the meaning defined above