- Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricœur (February 27, 1913 Valence France – May 20, 2005 Chatenay Malabry France) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. As such, he is connected to two other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 - March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, "Truth and Method" ("Wahrheit und Methode"). - Craig Blomberg
Craig L. Blomberg has been a New Testament scholar at Denver Seminary in Colorado. He is also a Distinguished Professor of the New Testament. He was an assistant professor of Religion at Palm Beach Atlantic College and took a leave of absence to accept a one-year research fellowship in Cambridge, England with the British wing of the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. During this time, he co-edited "Gospel Perspectives, vol. - Wilhelm Dilthey
Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833 - October 1, 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher. Dilthey could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, … - John D. Caputo
John D. Caputo (born October 26 1940) is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University and the founder of weak theology. Much of Caputo's work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction, and theology. - Anthony Thiselton
Anthony Charles Thiselton (b. July 13, 1937) has written several books and papers on Christian theology and the philosophy of religion. He has recently served on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, appointed by the Minister of Health. Anthony Thiselton is Professor of Christian Theology in the University of Nottingham, where he was also Head of Department for nine years. He is also Research Professor in the University of Chester, … - Wolfgang Iser
Wolfgang Iser was a German literary scholar. He was born in Marienberg, Germany. His parents were Paul and Else (Steinbach) Iser. He studied literature in the universities of Leipzig and Tübingen before receiving his PhD in English at Heidelberg by defending the dissertation on the world view of Henry Fielding (1950). A year later he was appointed an instructor at Heidelberg and in 1952 an assistant lecturer at the University of Glasgow, … - Theodore Of Mopsuestia
Theodore (ca. 350 - 428), was bishop of Mopsuestia, a city in what is now Turkey which has since declined into a village which is now known as Yakapinar, from 392 to 428. He is also known as Theodore of Antioch, from the place of his birth and presbyterate. He is the best known representative of the middle Antiochene school of hermeneutics. - Moisés Silva
Moisés Silva was born in Havana, Cuba, on September 4, 1945, and has lived in the US since 1960. He has taught biblical studies at Westmont College, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Silva was one of the translators of the Nueva Versión Internacional and has authored or coauthored several books including a commentary on "Philippians"; "Invitation to the Septuagint"; "God, Language, … - Elliot R. Wolfson
Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His main area of scholarly research is the history of Jewish mysticism but he has brought to bear on that field training in philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, postmodern hermeneutics, and the phenomenology of religion. - Jeremy J. Shapiro
Dr. Jeremy J. Shapiro (born 1940), is an American academic, a professor at Fielding Graduate University who works in the area of critical social theory with emphasis on the social and cultural impact of information technology and systems, social change, and the aesthetics of music. His main intellectual products/innovations include *the concept of the universal semiotic of technological experience: a language of images, symbols, … - Don Lavoie
Don C. Lavoie (April 4, 1951 - November 6, 2001) was an Austrian school economist. He worked at the Cato Institute. He wrote a book entitled "National Economic Planning: What Is Left?" (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1985). He was influenced by Friedrich Hayek, Michael Polanyi and Ludwig Lachmann. Among his students, there are a number of "contemporary Austrian" economists: Peter Boettke, David Prychitko, Steve Horwitz, Ralph Rector, … - Emilio Betti
Emilio Betti (Camerino August 20 1890 - Camerciano di Camerino August 11 1968) was an Italian theologian, philosopher and jurist. He is best known for his contributions to hermeneutics, part of a broad interest in interpretation. As a legal theorist, Betti is close to interpretivism. Betti's intellectual support of fascism between the end of World War I and the beginning of the 1920ss led him to be arrested in 1944, in Camerino. Betti remained in prison for about a month, … - Moses Stuart
Moses Stuart (March 26, 1780 - January 4, 1852), an American biblical scholar, was born in Wilton, Connecticut. He was reared on a farm graduating with highest honours at Yale in 1799; in 1802 he was admitted to the Connecticut bar and was appointed as a tutor at Yale, where he remained for two years. In 1806 Stuart became the pastor of the Centre (Congregational) Church of New Haven, … - Robert W. Funk
Robert W. Funk (July 18, 1926-September 3 2005), an American biblical scholar, was founder of the controversial Jesus Seminar and the nonprofit Westar Institute in Santa Rosa, California. Funk, an academic, sought to promote research and education on what he called biblical literacy. His approach to hermeneutics was historical-critical, with a strongly skeptical view of orthodox Christian belief, particularly concerning the historicity of Jesus. - Asma Barlas
Asma Barlas is an academic educated in Pakistan and the United States. She is the Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity of the department of politics at Ithaca College, New York. Her specialties include comparative and international politics, Islam and Qur'anic hermeneutics, and women and gender. - Richard L. Pratt Jr.
Richard Linwood Pratt, Jr. is an American Reformed theologian and author. He is the president and founder of Third Millennium Ministries and formerly chaired the Old Testament department at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Pratt transitioned in 2006 from his teaching role at RTS to work full time with Third Millennium Ministries, a move he has anticipated for many years. He is best known for his approach to Biblical hermeneutics, … - Nasr Abu Zayd
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, in Arabic:, (born October 7, 1943) is an Egyptian Qur'anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologists in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Qur'anic hermeneutics. - Paul D. Hanson
Paul D. Hanson (born November 17, 1939) is an American biblical scholar, since 1987 Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. He was previously Bussey Professor of Divinity (1981-1987). He began his teaching career at Harvard in 1971 as Assistant Professor of Old Testament. In addition to teaching he is a world-renowned author on issues relating to Old Testament hermeneutics. - Jacob Taubes
Jacob Taubes (born 1923, Vienna - d. March 21 1987, Berlin) was a sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism. Taubes was born into an old rabbinical family. He obtained his doctorate in 1947 for a thesis on "Occidental Eschatology" and initially taught religious studies and Jewish studies in the United States. From 1965 he was Professor of Jewish Studies and Hermeneutics at the Free University of Berlin. - Hugh Kenner
Hugh Kenner (January 7, 1923 - November 24, 2003), was a Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor. Kenner was born in Peterborough, Ontario on January 7, 1923; his father taught classics. Kenner attributed his interest in literature to his poor hearing, caused by a bout of influenza during his childhood. Attending the University of Toronto, Kenner studied under Marshall McLuhan, who wrote the introduction to Kenner's first book "Paradox in Chesterton". - Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath Obeyesekere Ph.D. is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 1964 and later taught at the University of California, San Diego before accepting a position at Princeton University. He is best known for psychoanalytic studies of possession and the "work of culture" in South Asia. He has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. - Werner Hamacher
Werner Hamacher is a deconstructive literary critic and theorist. Hamacher is currently a Professor in the University of Frankfurt's Institute for General and Comparative Literature ("Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft") and was previously Professor of German and the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. - Roger Stronstad
Dr. Roger J. Stronstad is a Canadian Pentecostal Bible scholar and theologian. He is Associate Professor in Bible and Theology at Summit Pacific College (formerly Western Pentecostal Bible College) in Abbotsford, British Columbia. In "The Charismatic Theology of St. Luke" (1984), he argues for a Pentecostal interpretation of Luke-Acts. He contends that Luke believed the gift of the Spirit was vocational, rather than soteriological or ethical, … - Rudolf Makkreel
Rudolf A. Makkreel is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. His work has focused on the German philosophers Dilthey and Kant. Makkreel is most well known for emphasizing the roles of the imagination and the "Critique of Judgment" within Kant's Critical system. The implications of Kant's conception of reflective judgment for hermeneutics and for Dilthey's theory of the human sciences in particular are also central to Makkreel's writings. - Dagfinn Føllesdal
Dagfinn Føllesdal (born June 22, 1932, Askim, Norway) is the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. Føllesdal has written extensively on topics relating to the philosophy of language, phenomenology, existentialism, and hermeneutics. At Harvard, Follesdal studied under Willard Van Orman Quine. - Georg Misch
Georg Misch was a German philosopher. He worked as a professor in Marburg and Göttingen before retiring in 1935. He went into exile to the UK, living there from 1939 until 1946. He is mostly known for his monumental "Geschichte der Autobiographie" (History of the Autobiography), in several volumes, beginning in 1907, the last one being published posthumous in 1969. He is considered a pupil of Wilhelm Dilthey and a follower of his hermeneutics. - James Olthuis
James H. Olthuis is an inter-disciplinary scholar in ethics, hermeneutics, philosophical theology, as well as a theorist and practitioner of psychotherapy of a kind he calls "Relational psychotherapy." - Hans Köchler
Hans Köchler (born October 18 1948 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria) is Full Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. In his general philosophical outlook he is influenced by Husserl and Heidegger, his legal thinking has been shaped by the approach of Kelsen. - Andrés Ortiz-Osés
Andrés Ortiz-Osés is a Spanish Philosopher. He studied Theology in Comillas and Rome and then moved to The Institute of Philosophy in Innsbruck where he became a Ph. D. in Hermeneutics. In Innsbruck he attended the lessons of Gadamer and Coreth. He was a member of the Eranos Circle, inspired by C.G. Jung. Other members of Eranos have been Joseph Campbell, Karl Kerenyi, Mircea Eliade, Erich Neumann, Gilbert Durand and James Hillman. - Neil Leach
Neil Leach is an architect and theorist. He has taught at the University of Bath, Architectural Association School of Architecture, University of Nottingham, Columbia University, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, Royal Danish Academy of Art and Dessau Institute of Architecture. He was the co-curator (with Xu Wei-Guo) of the A2 Exhibition of Avant-Garde Architecture at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2004, and of the Emerging Talents, … - Fabre D'Olivet
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet was a French author, poet and composer whose Biblical and philosophical hermeneutics influenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse. His best known work today is his research on the Hebrew language, Pythagoras's thirty-six Golden Verses and the sacred art of music. His interest in Pythagoras and the resulting works started a revival of Neo-Pythagoreanism that would later influence many occultists and new age spirtitualists. - Paul Yorck von Wartenburg
Hans Ludwig David Paul Count Yorck von Wartenburg (April 1, 1835- September 12, 1897) was a German lawyer, writer, and philosopher. He developed a hermeneutical philosophy of history in exchange with his friend Wilhelm Dilthey. Their correspondence influenced the early Martin Heidegger's philosophy of history, especially central concepts of his early thought and "Being and Time" such as historicity, generation, … - Dalibor Vesely
Dalibor Vesely was born in Prague, Czech Republic. He studied engineering, architecture, art history and aesthetics in Prague and in Munich and obtained his Ph.D from Charles University in Prague. He was also taught by Jan Patočka and has developed an interest in the poetics and hermeneutics of architecture. As a professor of architecture, he has been influential in establishing the role of hermeneutics and phenomenology as part of the design and discourse of architecture. - Joseph Kara
Joseph ben Simeon Kara (Hebrew: יוסף בן שמעון קרא) was a French Bible exegete who was born and lived in Troyes. His uncle and teacher was Menahem ben Ḥelbo, whom Ḳara often cites in his commentaries, these quotations being almost the only source of knowledge concerning Menahem's exegesis. Ḳara frequented Rashi's house; it is even possible that he was Rashi's pupil, though this is denied by A. Epstein. At least they quote each other - Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull (born 19 August 1944) is a writer, lecturer, professional philatelist and past member of the European Parliament who, in 1980, founded the Right Livelihood Awards (a.k.a. the Alternative Nobel Prize). He holds both Swedish and German citizenship. Jakob von Uexkull stems from a Baltic German family that was forced to leave Estonia during World War II. He was born in Uppsala, Sweden. - Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler (born June 6, 1963, Marburg, Germany) is a Public Administration, Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar. He is Professor and Chair of Governance, and one of the founders and directors of the Technology Governance program, at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Drechsler holds degrees from Bridgewater College, the University of Virginia, the University of Marburg, … - Samuel Bochart
Samuel Bochart (Rouen, 30 May 1599 - Caen, 16 May 1667) a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet, was a French Protestant biblical scholar, whose two-volume "Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan" (Caen 1646) exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis. Bochart was one of the several generations of antiquaries who expanded upon the basis Renaissance humanists had laid down, … - Johann Caspar von Orelli
Johann Caspar von Orelli, was a Swiss classical scholar. He was born at Zürich of a distinguished Italian family which had taken refuge in Switzerland at the time of the Protestant Reformation. His cousin, Johann Conrad Orelli (1770-1826), was the author of several works in the department of later Greek literature. From 1807 to 1814 Orelli worked as preacher in the reformed community of Bergamo, … - Ignaz Aurelius Fessler
Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, Hungarian ecclesiastic, politician, historian and freemason, was born in the village of Zurány in the county of Moson. In 1773 he joined the order of Capuchin friars, and in 1779 was ordained priest. He had meanwhile continued his classical and philological studies, and his liberal views brought him into frequent conflict with his superiors. In 1784, while at the monastery of Modling, near Vienna, he wrote to the emperor Joseph II, …
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