"On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!” Quoth the Raven...

Hermeneutics is a ten-dollar word that describes the process we use to derive meaning from a set of data, particularly from a written text. More simply, its the study of interpretation .* Rendering one's thoughts into language, recording and sending it off to elicit similar thoughts in the minds of receivers at various distances from its origin is not a simple process. Hermeneutics focuses on the receiving end where understanding and interpretation take place. Our English ter