From the beginning, the text of the first chapter of Genesis raises the question of how to interpret it. This depends on the recognition of the status accorded to the text by a given religious group and depends on the hermeneutical background that one adopts. Two conceptions of interpretation have been in constant conflict for several centuries: a “universal” hermeneutics, which aspires to be more than and different from a method, and a general (or critical) hermeneutics, which accepts being a method.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage