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The art of arguing what a text really meant, with footnotes for ammunition.
means The theory and method of interpretation, especially of scripture, law, and stubbornly ambiguous texts.
from From Greek hermeneutikos, interpretation, tied to Hermes, the messenger god who ferried meaning between divine and mortal.
Biblical rootsBorn decoding scripture before philosophers borrowed it.
The circleParts explain the whole, whole explains the parts, forever.
Beyond booksNow applied to law, history, art, even conversation.