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Biblical Hermeneutics
“Hermeneutics”
Is a word often used by seminarians, pastors, theologians, and intellectuals.
But what on earth does it mean?
Though hermeneutics as a study is an incredibly complicated subject, the definition of hermeneutics is not.
As a simple definition, biblical hermeneutics is the science of interpretation of the Bible and the methods of that interpretation.
As the methods of study of an ancient, inspired text written over the span of 1,500 years in multiple languages by dozens of authors from three continents, biblical hermeneutics is understandably a difficult topic.
Let’s explore some interesting facts about hermeneutics.
What Is the Study of Hermeneutics? The word hermeneutics comes from a Greek root meaning “interpreter” or “interpret.”
Thus, hermeneutics is an interpretation.
Merriam-Webster defines hermeneutics as “the study of the methodological principles of interpretation (as of the Bible)” and “a method or principle of interpretation.”
Hermeneutics, in general, does not necessarily have to refer to biblical study but could be an interpretation of another story, text, etc.
However, the word is most often used in relation to the Bible.
One might call a hermeneutic a mode of interpretation or a specific interpretive lens.
Biblical hermeneutics is about the approaches of looking at the Bible and interpreting what it means.
There are many ways of looking at the Bible and interpreting it, thus leading to multiple hermeneutic approaches.
What Is the Purpose of Hermeneutics? The ultimate goal of hermeneutics is to discover the truths and values in the Bible and what the text truly means.
In reality, everyone who approaches the Bible is engaging with a hermeneutic, taking in what it says and making sense of it through their own personal hermeneutic lens.
The goal of hermeneutics as a study, however, is not to look at the Bible with a subjective or tainted lens, as a person might do approaching the Bible on their own, but to try to discern what the intended meaning of the passage is, whether for readers at the time it was written or for us today.
With no context or just a cursory glance, many biblical passages can be incorrectly interpreted and may be taken in potentially harmful ways.
The purpose of hermeneutics is to discover what God wants us to take away.
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