In this eloquent book, Kathy Eden challenges commonly accepted
conceptions about the history of hermeneutics. Contending that the
hermeneutical tradition is not a purely modern German specialty,
she argues instead that the historical grounding of modern
hermeneutics is in the ancient tradition of rhetoric. Eden
demonstrates how the early rhetorical model of reading, called
interpretatio scripti by Cicero and his followers, not only has
informed a continuous tradition of interpretation from Republican
Rome to Reformation Europe but also has forged such enduring
hermeneutical principles as meaning, context, and literary economy.
Focusing on the most widely read works of the foremost
rhetorical theorists -- including Cicero, Quintilian, Plutarch,
Basil, Augustine, Erasmus, Melanchthon, and Flacius -- Eden traces
the evolution of interpretive principles that form a single
coherent chain of hermeneutical tradition. She shows how the
student in ancient times learned strategies for interpreting
contentious passages in legal and other texts, strategies that
enabled readers to find meaning both in Homer and in the Bible. To
understand patristic and humanist hermeneutics, says Eden, we must
recognize their roots in this deeply institutionalized method of
reading.
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