Biblical Hermeneutics
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PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL HERMENETICS ; M. M. NINAN<br />
GOD HAS SPOKEN. WHAT DID HE SAY?<br />
<strong>Biblical</strong> hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation concerning the books of<br />
the Bible. It is part of the broader field of hermeneutics which involves the study of principles<br />
for the text and includes all forms of communication: verbal and nonverbal.<br />
The words written in a Torah scroll are written without any vowel markings. Thus it can be<br />
pronounced and read in different ways depending on the vowels that are assigned by the<br />
reader. This means that any word in the Torah has potentially made to mean several things.<br />
It is the tradition, the oral transmission that determines the Torah and its meanings. It is<br />
this tradition that is giving the validity of hermeneutics.<br />
Thus, all the Christian and Jewish translations of the Torah rely on this tradition for their<br />
translations. Without this tradition it would be impossible to make a translation of the Torah.<br />
Without this tradition it would be impossible to know what God is telling us through His words<br />
as recorded in the Torah. Without it the Torah, can be read and made to mean almost<br />
anything<br />
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