Download or read book A Manual of Hermeneutics written by Luis Alonso Schökel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1998-08-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades of teaching the subject, this distinguished Old Testament scholar compiles a synthesis that takes into account and organizes the factors that are at work in the act of understanding and interpreting literary texts: producer, receiver, text, subject matter, language. Two chapters deal with normative interpretation and the sociology of interpretation. The author, who was a learned and independent thinker, in bondage to no theory, said of this work that it aimed at density without obscurity, order without showiness.