The problem of a theological hermeneutics

Abstract

Hermeneutic practice, an activity that strives to make a text from the past understandable in new situations and to readers of the present, is something that we already find within the Old Testament, where texts from the past are interpreted or reread so that they are understandable and significant in the present. new circumstances to new readers, for whom these texts are strange, given that their situation and that of the original reader are foreign to the present. This way of updating the text and making it meaningful and understandable to the present is done through some changes to the interior or through glosses that become part of the text or through comments on it, which is generally known as Midrash.