of ordinary language philosophy and of literary criticism. In the last part of this paper, some suggestions will be made of the implications and the importance of this work of Ricoeur for those involved in biblical interpretation. 2.1 Through several of his works, Ricoeur had pursued the question: What is it to interpret symbolic language? But by 1971, that question had been replaced by what he considers the broader question: What is it to interpret a text? The potential
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