| A | B |
|---|
| hermes | Greek God who delivered and interpreted messages from the gods |
| hermeneuein | Greek verb "te express, to explain, to translate, to interpret" |
| purpose of Hermeneutics | establish guidelines and rules for interpretation of written documents |
| grammatico-historical method | interpreting the words in a document in light of what those words meant when the document was created. |
| word definitions | How the word was used and what its meaning was |
| contextual analysis | the context of the writing must be considered |
| literary type | poetry, parable, historical narrative, dialogue, prophecy |
| syntactical distinctives | consider the arrangement of the words in the sentence |
| hermeneutics | the science of interfretation |
| United States Supreme Court | Interpret Constitution |
