Hermeneutics and the rhetorical tradition
Subtitle: chapters in the ancient legacy & its humanist reception
By: Kathy Eden.
Series: Yale studies in hermeneutics
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Hermeneutics -- History.; Rhetoric -- History.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]-114) and index.