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hermeneutics

[hur-muh-noo-tiks, -nyoo-] / ˌhɜr məˈnu tɪks, -ˈnyu- /


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When engaged in hermeneutics, we are asking questions such as author’s intent, how the audience interprets the text in question, the assumptions that fuel the reader to make the conclusions they come to, etc.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I found that when I looked in bibliographies, I was running across words like "phenomenology" and "hermeneutics" and things I didn't quite understand why they were there.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2021

Sharpton was at the lectern letting his words roar and flow, telling stories that circled back on each other in the familiar hermeneutics of black preachers.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

Joyce’s mythic scaffolding and verbal play identified him to academia as being essential both to modernism and to the project of hermeneutics.

From The Guardian • Mar. 18, 2017

Pfeiffer of Leipzig gained distinction in biblical criticism and hermeneutics by his “Critica Sacra” of a.d.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.