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名詞

hermeneut (plural hermeneuts)

1. (philosophy, theology) A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.
   • 1857 May 25, Professor Lumsden, “Conversion of the Jews”, in Proceedings of the Scotland Free Church General Assembly, page 46:

     Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts […] .

   • 1989, George H. Jensen, “Introduction”, in Post-Jungian Criticism, page 3:

     He was a hermeneut who worked out striking interpretations of texts.

2. (by extension) An interpreter of culture, experience, etc.
   • 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance:

     Oh, an ardent hermeneut might try to distinguish his or her own experience as more intensively "pop" than that of less authentic metaconsumers passing through Coke's world.

   • 2008, Michael Vannoy Adams, “The Archetypal School”, in Cambridge Companion to Jung, page 114:

     In short, Hillman is not a hermeneut but an imagist, or phenomenologist, who sticks to the image, adheres to the phenomenon, and adamantly refuses to interpret it, or reduce it to a concept.

同意語

• exegete, exegetist, hermeneutician, hermeneuticist

上位語

• interpreter

下位語

• pilpulist (Talmudic)

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