What is Hermeneutics?

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What is Hermeneutics?

• 1. Hermeneuein Greek To explain, interpret or
  to translate. Personified in the God Hermes.

2. General and Special Hermeneutics
3. Both science and art in the three elements of
author, text, and audience.
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Three Elements of Interpretation
VoiceTransmissionTranslation
Experience Emotion
Language
Author
Understanding Distance
Hermeneutical Distance
Text
HistoricalAllegoricalExistential
Experience Emotion
Herm. Construct
Interpreter
Audience
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Clarifications

• Conscious vs. Unconscious hermeneutics

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• Hermeneutics doesnt solve all your
• exegetical problems

• My own convictions about the Bible

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My Convictions About the Bible

1. It is the Word of God. Therefore --
   Understandable Lifes Guide Revelation of
   Himself

2. Inspired. Therefore -- flawless Truth
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3. Study is the Highest form of Worship