FROM RIOEUR'S BIBLICAL HERMENEUTICS TO HERMENEUTICS OF THE BODY

With his phenomenological hermeneutics, Paul Ricoeur had an important influence on Biblical exegesis. The article therefore, first, analyses his study, Biblical Hermeneutics (1975), which exemplify the main points of Ricoeur's hermeneutics and its application on Biblical texts. Although it is generally considered that this kind of hermeneutics is an important corrective to so-called structuralist ideology for which the autonomy of a text presupposes a complete termination of the referential dimension of language, the article points out that phenomenological hermeneutics is not sufficient and that it ignores the incarnational logic. Consequently, it suggests that Biblical hermeneutics needs to not only return the written text to discourse but also to point towards the Body, which is not a mere interpretative community, but an event of the "new creation". By being in the Body, a new hermeneutics of the body is being "born".