Bruce, I think I would add just a couple qualifiers to your latest. One is that the examples I've seen of Rabbinic exegesis all seem rather arbitrary, whereas the apostolic interpretations are anything but. So while there is overlap, there is not absolute identity of hermeneutical method. I guess harmonization theories are another thread topic, but I do honestly think that there is more straining to find contradictions or discrepancies than there is solving them.
And to finally say something to the original post, here are a couple mentions of the term in the New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopaedia.
The entry itself.
Ironically, a place where it is discussed in a
little more detail than the main entry.