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Semeia 4: Paul Ricoeur on Biblical Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

perplexities which refocused his endeavors. He found himself thrust into the heart of the hermeneutic problem, the problem of interpretation. From the first horizon, then, of a phenomenological method in the style of Husserl, and a meditation on mystery and paradox stimulated by Marcel and Jaspers, had grown the second horizon of a philosophy of the will; now the stimulus of symbolic language as necessary to express the fault enlarges the horizon still farther to what we may call a growing hermeneutics.
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