So much then for the history of hermeneutics.

All right. So what is the basic problematic for hermeneutics in this tradition?

What gave rise in the Western world to what is called "hermeneutics" was in fact the Protestant Reformation.

These are the questions that are asked by what's called hermeneutics, a difficult word that we will be taking up next week.

Once again you see that hermeneutics enters a field when the meaning of something becomes more important and when that meaning is recognized to be difficult to grasp.