PART I : Situating the subject
PART II : Hermeneutics and speech-act theory
PART III : Hermeneutics, semantics and conceptual grammar
PART IV : Lexicocraphy, exegesis and reception history
PART V : Parables, narrative-worlds and reader-response theories
PART VI : Philosophy, language, theology and postmodernity
PART VII : Hermeneutics, history and theology.