The study of hermeneutics has developed alongside other epistemic tools, through phases of expansion and reflection, from a way of understanding how religious texts are interpreted to a way of understanding how meaning, in any context, is interpreted. This essay will outline the scholastic lineage of this development.
Hermeneutics originates in the Classical Greek mythopoetry of Hermes, a divine being tasked with communicating the word of gods to mortals. Herodotus, in the 5th Century BCE, used hermeneus as a term for a translator between languages. Aeschylus, and other Classical Greek…