Monday, July 4, 2011

Hermeneutics

her-men-eut-ics (hûrm-ntks, -ny-)

noun
1. The study or theory of the methodical interpretation of texts, especially holy texts.
The commonly held belief that the Flying Spaghetti Monster has larger balls than the Christian God is a trick of hermeneutics.

Synonyms: criticism, exegetics, interpretation, literary criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, reading, revealing, unmasking.

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