Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)

Eden, Professor Kathy

ISBN 10: 0300066945 / ISBN 13: 9780300066944

Published by Yale University Press, 1997

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Hardcover and dust jacket. Fine binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 119 pages ; 22 cm. 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300066945
• ISBN 13: 9780300066944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Weight: 11 ounces
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This book poses an eloquent challenge to the common conception of the hermeneutical tradition as a purely modern German specialty. Kathy Eden traces a continuous tradition of interpretation from Republican Rome to Reformation Europe, arguing that the historical grounding of modern hermeneutics is in the ancient tradition of rhetoric.