Heritage and hermeneutics: towards a broader interpretation of interpretation

Imam Khomeini`s Quranic Interpretation and Hermeneutics

The words commentary and hermeneutics have been of different meanings for commentators. In the past, they were used interchangeably but in the present, the former means discovering the meaning of words or Divine goal and the latter using the word contrary to its appear meaning or understanding its inner meaning. Unlike these two groups, Imam Khomeini has considered interpretation as discovering...

Textual Interpretation and Complexity -radical Hermeneutics

Paul and postcolonial hermeneutics: Marginality and/in early biblical interpretation

The paper explores Paul’s engagement with the Scriptures of Israel from the point of view of (his sense of) marginality, which invites a postcolonial perspective on his hermeneutics. It first briefly considers the deployment of postcolonial criticism in biblical studies, followed by a consideration of the value of postcolonial theory for Paul’s biblical hermeneutics. Four areas where postcoloni...

A Broader Interpretation of Logic in Logic Programming

We argue that the restriction of logic programs to sets of Horn clauses, even with negation as failure, is an unacceptable inhibition to programmers' expressiveness and forces them to make premature procedural commitments. Programmers should be permitted to use the cull power of logic when specifying logic programs. In particular, we give examples of the need for functions, quantification, disj...

Allegory: Structure, Interpretation and Polysemy

In allegories polysemy relates not only to the context and the audience’s understanding but also to the structural characters of these texts. This paper investigates the function of structural and narrative properties in the creation of multiple interpretations of an allegory. Focusing on the events and following a unique story-line is the most important trait in helping to read the alleg...