Understanding Oral Hermeneutics and Relational Hermeneutics

Enoch Wan. In 2011, Tom Steffen and William Bjoraker proposed
“oral hermeneutics” (The Return of Oral Hermeneutics
which is quite different from conventional “textual
hermeneutics.” In this paper, the author proposes
“relational hermeneutics” which is based on
the paradigm of “relational interactionism” that
can integrate “textual hermeneutics” and “oral
hermeneutics.” A simple comparison of the three
hermeneutical approaches to Scriptures (i.e.
comparison of textual/oral/relational hermeneutics)
will be included before the proposed integration.

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