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Old Jewish Commentaries on «The Song of Songs» II
The Two Commentaries of Tanchum Yerushalmi- Text and translation©2014 Others -
Old Jewish Commentaries on the Song of Songs I
The Commentary of Yefet ben Eli- Edited and translated from Judeo-Arabic by Joseph Alobaidi©2010 Others -
Mind, Text, and Commentary
Noetic Exegesis in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, and Evagrius Ponticus©2010 Thesis -
13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights
Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics©2017 Monographs -
Hermeneutic Commentaries
ISSN: 1043-5735
"The question of interpretation of the text is at the center of this collection of monographs and commentaries on classical literatures. Interpretation starts with the realisation that at the outset, the sense of a text is an hypothesis to be gradually and constantly revised and ascertained. Grammar, syntax, and rhetoric are certainly the necessary part for this critical operation, but they fall short of giving full sense to the signification of the text. A philological commentary establishes the texts as close as possible to the authors text, and provides the information necessary for modern readers to understand what the text meant to its contemporary users. But besides the impossibility of achieving this task fully, this sort of information does not provide the sense of the text as it opens itself to the questions of its individuality and universality, its historicity and its transhistorical iterability, as it hides the rules and game of its composition, its difference in order to show its identity. These opposite poles are constantly united and create a tension, a continuous oscillation that are the very domaine of the interpretative analysis, and the conditions of the texts ever emerging sense . The hermeneutic circle, through which the critical hypothesis is constantly revised and made more precise, can be viewed also as a sort of deconstructive operation, a decomposing of the text in order to recompose it around its now discovered rules and games, of which the author is not necessarily always fully aware. Because of these conditions the sense of a text is more open to the critics than to its author; this point makes the critics conscious that as they are reading, they are in some way writing the text." "The question of interpretation of the text is at the center of this collection of monographs and commentaries on classical literatures. Interpretation starts with the realisation that at the outset, the sense of a text is an hypothesis to be gradually and constantly revised and ascertained. Grammar, syntax, and rhetoric are certainly the necessary part for this critical operation, but they fall short of giving full sense to the signification of the text. A philological commentary establishes the texts as close as possible to the authors text, and provides the information necessary for modern readers to understand what the text meant to its contemporary users. But besides the impossibility of achieving this task fully, this sort of information does not provide the sense of the text as it opens itself to the questions of its individuality and universality, its historicity and its transhistorical iterability, as it hides the rules and game of its composition, its difference in order to show its identity. These opposite poles are constantly united and create a tension, a continuous oscillation that are the very domaine of the interpretative analysis, and the conditions of the texts ever emerging sense . The hermeneutic circle, through which the critical hypothesis is constantly revised and made more precise, can be viewed also as a sort of deconstructive operation, a decomposing of the text in order to recompose it around its now discovered rules and games, of which the author is not necessarily always fully aware. Because of these conditions the sense of a text is more open to the critics than to its author; this point makes the critics conscious that as they are reading, they are in some way writing the text." "The question of interpretation of the text is at the center of this collection of monographs and commentaries on classical literatures. Interpretation starts with the realisation that at the outset, the sense of a text is an hypothesis to be gradually and constantly revised and ascertained. Grammar, syntax, and rhetoric are certainly the necessary part for this critical operation, but they fall short of giving full sense to the signification of the text. A philological commentary establishes the texts as close as possible to the authors text, and provides the information necessary for modern readers to understand what the text meant to its contemporary users. But besides the impossibility of achieving this task fully, this sort of information does not provide the sense of the text as it opens itself to the questions of its individuality and universality, its historicity and its transhistorical iterability, as it hides the rules and game of its composition, its difference in order to show its identity. These opposite poles are constantly united and create a tension, a continuous oscillation that are the very domaine of the interpretative analysis, and the conditions of the texts ever emerging sense . The hermeneutic circle, through which the critical hypothesis is constantly revised and made more precise, can be viewed also as a sort of deconstructive operation, a decomposing of the text in order to recompose it around its now discovered rules and games, of which the author is not necessarily always fully aware. Because of these conditions the sense of a text is more open to the critics than to its author; this point makes the critics conscious that as they are reading, they are in some way writing the text."
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A Translation of Plato’s «Sophist» with an Introductory Commentary
Translated by James Duerlinger©2009 Monographs -
Benedict Nta Tanka's Commentary and Dramatized Ideas on «Disease and Witchcraft in our Society»
A Schreber Case from Cameroon- Annotated Autobiographical Notes by an African on his Mental Illness©1980 Others -
The Messiah in Isaiah 53
The commentaries of Saadia Gaon, Salmon ben Yeruham and Yefet ben Eli on Is 52:13-53:12- Edition and translation©1998 Monographs -
Caesar and the Storm
A Commentary on Lucan "De Bello Civili</I>, Book 5 lines 476-721©2008 Monographs -
Black Australian Literature
A bibliography of fiction, poetry, drama, oral traditions and non-fiction, including critical commentary, 1900-1991©2000 Others -
Ibrahim ibn Yaqub’s Account of His Travel to Slavic Countries as Transmitted by Al-Bakri
With Contemporary Commentaries edited by Mustafa SwitatMonographs -
The Wisdom of Zhuang Zi on Daoism
Translated with Annotations and Commentaries by Chung Wu©2008 Monographs -
Jonathan Swift’s «On Poetry: A Rapsody»
A Critical Edition with a Historical Introduction and Commentary©2005 Thesis -
God, Guns, Capitalism, and Hypermasculinity
Commentaries on the Culture of Firearms in the United States©2021 Textbook