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What is Hermeneutics?

February 19, 2023


Hermeneutics is a philosophical discipline which deals with questions of what enables
interpretation and understanding.
Greek roots of the verb, hermeneuein (to interpret) and the noun hermeneia
(interpretation)

History
Aristotle wrote the major treatise, Peri Hermeneias (On Interpretation) and the Greek
wing-footed messenger-god, Hermes, is associated with the function of transmuting
what is beyond human understanding into a form that human intelligence is able to
grasp, a turning of an unintelligible thing or situation into understanding
Even earlier, during the late middle ages, hermeneutics had also been applied to the
interpretation of legal judgments
and then later, during the Renaissance period, it was also applied to philology in an
effort to revive classical learning
hermeneutics was developed to interpret the Bible, which, while considered to be a
work of divine inspiration, needed to be interpreted so that the significance of the divine
revelation could be applied to one’s life in general
It was the Reformation which produced an enormous expansion in the use of
hermeneutics as both Catholic and Protestant theologians argued over the “correct”
principles to be employed in interpreting the Bible.
Hermeneutical scholars have viewed this period as the genesis of modern hermeneutics
and the application of hermeneutics was not limited to interpretation of the Bible only

Features
The primary function of hermeneutics is to stress the interpreter’s relation to the
interpreted and the understanding that arises out of that relation
[H]ermeneutics stresses the act of mediation between an interpreter and the
interpreted…. Interpretation is an act, that if successful, produces understanding. The
task of interpretation is to understand that which is to be interpreted. To produce an
interpretation is to come up with an understanding of the interpreted
Interpretation itself is a new and unique production of work. It is not merely a specular
reproduction of what is being interpreted. According to Gallagher (1992), interpretations
never simply repeat, copy, reproduce or restore the interpreted in its originality.
Interpretation produces something new and this original insight gives meaning and
understanding to the interpreter.
A unique characteristic of hermeneutical inquiry is that it accords priority to questioning,
which results in a persistent search for questioning about meaning. These questions
resist easy answers or solutions. There is a search for finding the genuine question, but
in finding the genuine question it must be recognized that there may be genuine
questions but never final or closed ones.

The Major Traditions within Modern Hermeneutics

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