One reason I get vexed about [biblical] hermeneutics involves the almost universal reflex to treat the topic as ‘How to interpret this kind of text’ without even considering what happens when we interpret texts in the first place — as though we already know that, it’s unproblematic. But taking that for granted generates the whole problem. If people would bother understanding ‘hermeneutics’ in the first place, then we could get some headway on why people interpret this or that text as they do.
Anyway, that’s why I’m determined to write what I assume will be my last book before I agree to any other writing projects. Pinky promise.