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hermeneutic

[hur-muh-noo-tik, -nyoo-] / ˌhɜr məˈnu tɪk, -ˈnyu- /


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Hermeneutic seeks to analyze the degree to which the Biblical writer's inner meaning was helped or hindered by the cultural instruments available to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hermeneutic, -al, hėr-me-nū′tik, -al, adj. interpreting: explanatory: exigetical.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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