Even More Thinking Biblically

How can a hermeneutic philosopher think exegetically?

1. Become a reader of exegesis and through understanding that literary genres are forms of discourse that give rise to philosophical thinking.
   
2. Moving beyond the traditional philosophic texts, and embracing discourse that is not scientifically descriptive, explanatory, apologetic, argumentative, or dogmatic and embracing a world where the metaphoric language of poetry is the closest secular equivalent .
3. Understand the relationship between the text and historic communities of reading and interpretation. It is being willing to enter sympathetically the hermeneutic circle in which, it is in interpreting the Scriptures in question that the community in question interprets itself p. xvi).

LaCocque, A., & Ricoeur, P. (1998). Thinking biblically: Exegetical and hermeneutical studies (D. Pellauer, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.