Título en inglés

Abstract

One of the causes of misreading the Bible is our difficulty to overcome our ignorance in things like grammatical and linguistic features, lack of access to translations of ancient texts, understanding ancient literary genders and that strange part of modern science called hermeneutics. Using them, at least in a simple way, and leaning on the works of outstanding scholars and his own research, the author explains some facts and concepts which are little known by most of even quite cultivated persons. Words may have meanings in quite a number of different disciplines. They may have in different occasions anthropological, cosmological, scientific, mythical, philosophical, popular or historical nuances. Distinguishing among epochs, traditions, reformations, scholarly centers, leading groups and disasters, but especially texts, the author tries to figure out what are the ideas and nuances that stand behind what we now understand by reading or hearing the word spirit in our languages.