A Study On The Relation Between Hermeneutics And The Bible

Hermeneutics is an ancient and young academic field. Its appearance dates from the fifth century BC during which the ancient Hebrew interpreted the Pentateuch. We can pledge that its origin can't be separated from the Bible. When the whole western world regarded the Christian as its relief, hermeneutics became the important subject which the Christian philosophy and theology were found on. Since the 18th century, the waves of the Enlightenment have challenged the social manipulative power of the Christian tradition. The philosophical hermeneutics left the Bible and became a kind of the independent subject that didn't regard the Bible any longer as its single object. With many scholars' efforts such as Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, especially Gadamer and Ricoeur, the ideas of philosophical hermeneutics have invaded in all kinds of fields of humanistic academia such as literature, aesthetics, psychology, histology and sociology etc and have greatly influenced the modern academic movement. This thesis tries to describe the progress in which hermeneutics and the Bible appeared, developed, separated and combined so that it might make the complex relation between them clear.This thesis consists of four parts except prelude and conclusion.Prelude mainly proclaims the general reason for which author writes the article. In it, the author shows the significance of the theme through describing the present condition of the civil academia. In addition to it, the author simply demonstratejthe essence of comparative literature in the biblical literature studies itself according to the theory concerned in case that the biblical literature studies might be misunderstood as it were for the evident reason.The first part 'the Affinity of Hermeneutics and the Bible' consists three units: 1, The Cause of Hermeneutics; 2,The Ancient Exegesis; 3,The biblical literature's appearance. l.The Cause of Hermeneutics: This unit investigates^^)?) etymology and themyth-anthropologistical foundation/hermeneutics and traces the Bible's formingwhile it discusses the religious use of the Bible and reason of exegesis. The author mainly studies the general reason of interpretation and analyzes three of the earliest causes of exegesis.2. The Ancient Exegesis: In this unit, the author traces the exegesis's forming and developing and investigates two main inclinations of exegesis: literal exegesis and_>. 7trans-literal exegesis. The unit exposes their obvious essence of literature ^describes especially two representatives of metaphorical exegesis. At the end of the unit, the author highly praises the medieval exegesis's contribution according to the true condition of medieval literary theory and criticism.3. The Biblical Literature's Appearance: This unit shows the exegetical foundation of the biblical literature. The author argues that the biblical literature originated-from exegesis and the development of the biblical literature accelerates the exegesis's evolvement toward multiple hermeneutics .In addition, the unit emphasizes the broad sense of the biblical literature and its extreme important position in exegesis. In the end, the author thinks that all kinds of exegesis theories and practice can be classified more or less in the broad field of the biblical literature.The second part 'the Modern Hermeneutics leaving the family of the Bible' describes the modern hermeneutic background of the Bible before Paul Ricoeur in the historical clue. It discusses the concerned ideas of Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer. The author thinks that the developing period of philosophical hermeneutics is the important stage in which hermeneutics left the Bible and built its own spiritual sky. During this time, hermeneutics evolved into ontological hermeneutical philosophy from the level of epistemology and methodology so that it might influence greatly academic history of the 20th century.The third part 'the Return of Hermeneutics' mainly describes Paul Ricoeur's philosophical hermeneutics and the b...