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 ====Hermeneutics, Psychology, and Christianity====
-Hermeneutics can create a bridge between psychology and Christianity in that hermeneutics started largely on the issue of interpreting religious text and yet is a function of how the mind works at interpreting a certain text. The terms "hermeneutics" is a word in the American Psychology Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology.[2]
+Hermeneutics can create a bridge between psychology and Christianity in that hermeneutics started largely on the issue of interpreting religious text and yet is a function of how the mind works at interpreting a certain text. The terms "hermeneutics" is a word in the ''American Psychology Association (APA) Dictionary of Psychology''.[2]
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 ====Recent developments in Hermeneutics====
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 [1]https://www.oodegr.com/english/protestantism/gynai.htm

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 <blockquote>Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.</blockquote>
-   We see above that the author of the Gospel provides the interpretation...the one the disciples later understood to be the meaning.
+We see above that the author of the Gospel provides the interpretation...the one the disciples later understood to be the meaning.
 Also found in the Gospel of John, also in Chapter 2, is the use of the Greek word "γύναι" or "gynai", which is pronounced "yee-neh".

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 <blockquote>When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”</blockquote>
-<blockquote>'''“Woman''',[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”</blockquote>
+<blockquote>'''“Woman''', why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”[1]</blockquote>
 ====[[Apostolic Hermeneutics]] - The Apostles Interpretation of the Old Testament====
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 {{returnto}} [[Christianity]] -> [[Bible]] -> [[Interpreting the Bible]]

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 <blockquote>Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.</blockquote>
-    We see above that the author of the Gospel provides the interpretation of what the disciples later understood to be the meaning.
+    We see above that the author of the Gospel provides the interpretation...the one the disciples later understood to be the meaning.
 Also found in the Gospel of John, also in Chapter 2, is the use of the Greek word "γύναι" or "gynai", which is pronounced "yee-neh".

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 ====Hermeneutic Examples found in the Gospels====
-An example of hermeneutics can be found in the John, 2:19-20:
+An example of hermeneutics can be found in John, 2:19-20:
-<blockquote>'''Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”</blockquote>
+<blockquote>Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.”</blockquote>
 <blockquote>They replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?” </blockquote>
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 <blockquote>After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. </blockquote>
-<blockquote>Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.'''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.</blockquote>
-    We see the author of the gospel provide the interpretation of what the disciples later understood to be the meaning of the words.
+    We see above the author of the Gospel provides the interpretation of what the disciples later understood to be the meaning of the words.
 Also found in the Gospel of John, also in Chapter 2, is the use of the Greek word "γύναι" or "gynai", which is pronounced "yee-neh".
 At the time of the gospels, the term was a term of respect to women, much like the words "honorable madam". With this explanation of Ancient Greek and the cultural use of certain words as acts of respect to others, the following passage is easier to interpret:
-<blockquote>''On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,</blockquote>
+<blockquote>On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,</blockquote>
 <blockquote>and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.  </blockquote>
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 <blockquote>When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”</blockquote>
-<blockquote>'''“Woman''',[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”''</blockquote>
+<blockquote>'''“Woman''',[a] why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”</blockquote>
 ====[[Apostolic Hermeneutics]] - The Apostles Interpretation of the Old Testament====

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 ====The Author's Purpose and His Original Audience====
-Understanding that the author wrote the text for certain purposes is very helpful. For example, realising that one rason the [[apostle Matthew]] wrote the [[Gospel of Matthew]] was to show his Jewish audience that [[Jesus]] is the [[Messiah]] helps shed light on why Matthew so often makes reference to the Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah.
+Understanding that the author wrote the text for certain purposes is very helpful. For example, realising that one reason the [[apostle Matthew]] wrote the [[Gospel of Matthew]] was to show his Jewish audience that [[Jesus]] is the [[Messiah]] helps shed light on why Matthew so often makes reference to the Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah.
 ====Time====
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 The [[Old Testament]] was mostly written in [[Hebrew]] and partially in [[Aramaic]]. The [[New Testament]] was written in [[Koine Greek]]. Naturally it is a complex task to translate these ancient languages in modern day languages. This is especially the case with words that have ambigious or unclear meanings.
-Futhermore, when the gospels quote the words of Jesus, it must be remembered that Jesus likely spoke [[Aramaic]], yet the gospel writers wrote in Greek, and so these are translations of Jesus' words by men for whom Greek was not their mother tongue.
+Furthermore, when the gospels quote the words of Jesus, it must be remembered that Jesus likely spoke [[Aramaic]], yet the gospel writers wrote in Greek, and so these are translations of Jesus' words by men for whom Greek was not their mother tongue.
 ====Geography====
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 ====Jewish Interpretation====
 ====[[Apostolic Hermeneutics]] - The Apostles Interpretation of the Old Testament====
-The way in which the apostles understood and interpreted the Old Testament showed many similarities to contemporary Jewish hermemeutics, but also marked differences. Examination of the apostles' usage of the Old Testament reveals a Christological approach to understanding it, that is, they saw the Old Testament through the lens of Jesus as the fulfilment of Scripture.
+The way in which the apostles understood and interpreted the Old Testament showed many similarities to contemporary Jewish hermeneutics, but also marked differences. Examination of the apostles' usage of the Old Testament reveals a Christological approach to understanding it, that is, they saw the Old Testament through the lens of Jesus as the fulfillment of Scripture.
 ====Hermeneutics in the early church====

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-Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation. In the Christian context hermeneutics tends to refer to interpreting and understanding the [[Bible]].
+Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation theory. Hermeneutics in the traditional and Christian sense refers to the use of interpretation of texts in the [[Bible]].
-Hermeneutics involves establishing important principles for understanding the Bible, and then interpreting it so its message is made clear to the reader or listener. It involves [[exegesis]], which is the process of examining what the actual biblical text meant to the author and its original intended audience. It also involves interpretation or application of the original meaning in a contemporary context.
+Hermeneutics involves establishing important principles for understanding the Bible, and then interpreting it so its message is made clear to the reader or listener. It involves [[exegesis]], which is the process of examining what the actual biblical text meant to the author and its original intended audience. It also involves contextualization or application of the meaning of the text in a contemporary context.
 The goal in applying the principles of hermeneutics is to "rightly handle the word of truth" ([[2 Timothy 2:15]]) striving to accurately discern the meaning of the text.

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-==A snarky summary of the Bible==
+{{quote | text={{Bible verse|2 Timothy|2|15|lang=WEB}}   [[2 Timothy 2:15]]}}
-''The Bible'' is the most popular fantasy novel ever written.  The first main character is a stuttering, orphaned, Jewish murderer named Moses, who was raised by the Egyptian royalty.  He leads a resistance and eventually escapes Egypt with his people, and then wanders around the desert for a while, and after he dies his people go on to create Israel without him. He told people that he followed a god that was their god now, and they had to follow him or else.  This god was so special because Moses said he created the Earth some two thousand years before, over a seven day period.  Then his god put people on the earth, starting with a guy, then eventually giving him a wife.  They [[Fun:Original sin|ate a fruit]] when Moses' god told them not to, so he decided they should suffer and die by being kicked out of the paradise he made for them.  Since there was no more paradise, this made carnivorous animals start to eat other animals, all because of us.<ref>  Now godless [[Paleontology|paleontologists]] imagine they've found evidence of carnivorous animals eating other animals before humans existed.  That shows how ignorant and evil paleontologists are. They contradict the Bible.  Wait a moment.  The Bible's fantasy fiction.  So paleontologists aren't evil after all.
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-Vegetarians are so ashamed of this, that they stopped eating other animals.</ref>  The only people worth talking about at this point were inbred from this first couple.  Later, an alcoholic named Noah built a boat because Moses' god told him to.  Then that god told him to collect two each of the billions of species on Earth.  Once all the species were collected, that god then drowned everything and everyone else because they pissed him off.  Then Noah and his wife got down to another round of inbreeding, and all modern humans are inbred cousins through them.  Within a few more thousand years all the different races of humanity had diverged, and all the plants, animals, and insects, etc. had repopulated the earth, bringing us back to the main plot line.  A bunch of crappy stuff happens to the Jews, until a new main character is introduced.
+Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation. In the Christian context hermeneutics tends to refer to interpreting and understanding the [[Bible]].
-The new character is called [[Fun:Jesus|Jesus]], whose mother was a virgin, and who is supposed to be his own dad (no, really!).  He came along and told people that they should believe in him, because he was the only way into this awesome new paradise in Heaven, where animals don't eat each other any more.<ref>Vegetarians rejoice!</ref>  He proved all this, and that he wasn't faking, by doing magic tricks for any people who would stop and listen to him.  Then some hateful Jews came along and got him killed, because they thought his teachings were hate-speech, and had to be destroyed.  Then he goes on to an underworld full of pain and suffering.  However, a few days later he crawled back out, and this now-zombie Jesus rolled away a rock and scared two poor innocent women, then joined the poor saps he had tricked, and had them poke fingers in him, and told spooky stories about the afterlife.  He reiterated that everyone had to believe in him or they wouldn't make it to the happy afterlife.  After this, Jesus crawls up to heaven, and his poor saps are left on Earth without him, just waiting for a new main character to lead the way.
+Hermeneutics involves establishing important principles for understanding the Bible, and then interpreting it so its message is made clear to the reader or listener. It involves [[exegesis]], which is the process of examining what the actual biblical text meant to the author and its original intended audience. It also involves interpretation or application of the original meaning in a contemporary context.
-===Previous snarky summary===
+The goal in applying the principles of hermeneutics is to "rightly handle the word of truth" ([[2 Timothy 2:15]]) striving to accurately discern the meaning of the text.
-==References and notes==
+===Important Considerations===
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