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	Analisi ermeneutica comparativa	Critica Testuale
Campo	Metodi sul campo	Metodi sul campo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	Mid-20th century (Gadamer 1960; comparative extension developed 1970s–1990s)	Antiquity; modern systematic method c. 1850s (Lachmann)
Ideatore	Hans-Georg Gadamer; Paul Ricoeur; Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic tradition); comparative extension by cross-cultural and comparative religion scholars	Classical philologists (Karl Lachmann foremost in systematic method)
Tipo	Qualitative interpretive method	Humanistic / philological research method
Fonte seminale	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960) ISBN: 978-0826400185	West, M. L. (1973). Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts. Teubner. ISBN: 978-3519074014
Alias	comparative hermeneutics, cross-textual hermeneutics, comparative interpretive analysis, CHA	lower criticism, editorial criticism, philological criticism, manuscript criticism
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	Comparative hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative method that applies hermeneutic interpretation across two or more texts, traditions, or discourses to reveal shared meanings, tensions, and divergences. Drawing on Gadamer's concept of the hermeneutic circle and Ricoeur's theory of text and meaning, it moves iteratively between the parts and the whole of each text while simultaneously holding multiple texts in dialogue, surfacing how different historical, cultural, or disciplinary contexts shape interpretation.	Textual criticism is a systematic philological method for identifying, comparing, and evaluating variant readings across multiple manuscript or print witnesses of a text in order to reconstruct the most accurate version of the original — or the author's intended — text. Applied since antiquity to classical, biblical, and literary works, it remains the foundational editorial method in classical studies, biblical scholarship, medieval studies, and critical editing of literary works.