Biblical hermeneutics
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"Beginning as early as the third century, Biblical hermeneutics began to split into two primary schools: Alexandria and Antioch. The Alexandrian Biblical interpretations stressed allegorical readings, frequently at the expense of the texts' literal meaning. Primary figures in this school included Origen and Clement of Alexandria. The Antiochene school stressed instead the more literal and historical meaning of the text. Theodore of Mopsuestia and Diodore of Tarsus were the primary figures in the Antiochene school."--Sholem Stein |
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Biblical hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of the Bible. It is part of the more broad field of hermeneutics which involves not just the study of principles for the text, but includes all forms of communication: verbal, nonverbal and written.
While Jewish and Christian Biblical hermeneutics have some overlap and dialogue, they have distinctly separate interpretative traditions, see also Judaism and Christianity.
See also
- Allegorical interpretation
- Apologetics
- Biblical accommodation
- Biblical law in Christianity
- Biblical literalism
- Biblical studies
- Deconstruction-and-religion
- Exegesis
- Formulary controversy concerning Jansenius' Augustinus in the 17th century
- Gemaṭria
- Hermeneutics
- Historical-grammatical method
- Literary criticism
- Literary theory
- Noṭariḳon
- Patternism
- Postmodern Christianity
- Principles of interpretation
- Qur'anic hermeneutics
- Summary of Christian eschatological differences
- Syncretism
- Table of books of Judeo-Christian Scripture
- Talmudical Hermeneutics
