Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Gurdjieff. I find it perfect to learn about hermeneutics by practice.
You don't need to become super adept on reading deep theological / academic stuff after it, but it's useful to learn to interpret everything as units with many layers of meaning (ex. the news, history articles in certain language by a certain country...).
It's written obfuscated on purpose: it appears to be a sci-fi book with "random" "invented" words to describe Humanity from the perspective of an alien, but it's a philosophy book about Human psychology with heavy references to different world religions and cultures.
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson by George Gurdjieff. I find it perfect to learn about hermeneutics by practice.
You don't need to become super adept on reading deep theological / academic stuff after it, but it's useful to learn to interpret everything as units with many layers of meaning (ex. the news, history articles in certain language by a certain country...).
It's written obfuscated on purpose: it appears to be a sci-fi book with "random" "invented" words to describe Humanity from the perspective of an alien, but it's a philosophy book about Human psychology with heavy references to different world religions and cultures.
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