hermeneutics
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In the study of hermeneutics, this is a technique known as proof texting: starting with a particular belief and working backward to find a biblical passage that seems to support this idea.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2023
When engaged in hermeneutics, we are asking questions such as author’s intent, how the audience interprets the text in question, the assumptions that fuel the reader to make the conclusions they come to, etc.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Sharpton was at the lectern letting his words roar and flow, telling stories that circled back on each other in the familiar hermeneutics of black preachers.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020
Joyce’s mythic scaffolding and verbal play identified him to academia as being essential both to modernism and to the project of hermeneutics.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2017
We do not wonder that Webster, and all the other sound lawyers of the nation, heard such an announcement of Constitutional hermeneutics with utter surprise and astonishment.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various
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