Yes but, one should not dismiss a biblical scholar who specializes in social-sciences and anthropology just because he/she is not fluent in the original language. There are a vast array of resources that lends itself to the grammatical dimension of hermeneutics. That's what I'm saying.

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but you cannot perform 'sound hermeneutics' when you regurgitate what others have translated
you can perform some basic hermeneutics by comparing different translations and textual criticism provided

You still don't seem to understand.

A person with absolute fluency in original biblical knowledge still wouldn't be able to unearth true intended meaning. The academic community (yes even biblical scholars) borrow each other's work and use it for interpretation.

You can perform "basic hermeneutics" by knowing original languages too.

Sigh. not sure if you are trolling.

you capacity of comprehension really has to be put into doubt
if you have missed the key point let me make clear that is was 'sound hermeneutics'
and not anything else like eg 'the ability to unearth the true intended meaning'
in case you did not know hermeneutics is used outside the concept of biblical hermeneutics
and i did my fill with medieval literary pieces, eg niebelungenlied

I haven't forgotten #9. I missed the Sermon because it occurred on Good Friday and I was asked to assist with the Kid's program so I missed the Sermon.

However the Sermon's are all recorded and come out on vodcast after a few days. When it eventually comes out then I'll do #9. They also did #10 as well but the same thing happened.

just hoping that after #9 & $#10 you are done for some time

The next series is: Questions that Jesus asks us. I don't plan to relay what I hear from Church to here again next term.

Why not?

That is exactly what hermeneutics is. True intended meaning. Anything else is misinterpretation.

If you disagree then I would really really love to hear what you think the goal of hermeneutics is.

This post was edited by dajusta on Apr 3 2013 10:15am

sorry, i should have known that you wouldn't understand my response without further explanation
hermeneutics indeed does look for the true meaning of the text BUT in the sense to understand what the text meant for those writing it
and not to draw spiritual conclusions out of it - or do you change your belief system whenever you read the sacred text of another religion?
to understand what the text was meant to say (potentially in a propagandistic way) is different to taken this on as your belief
scraping the text sequences for justification of your faith is not hermeneutics (but for you it is definitely part of 'the true intended meaning')