Litearary Theory and Halacha

"The halachist acknowledges that this meaning is a construct and not a discovery of original meaning, but that does not matter, because Torah interpretation is validated and measured by communal consensus regarding those conclusions and not by degree of historical fidelity to some unknowable original intent.
See http://divreichaim.blogspot.com/2009/06/ask-wrong-question-get-wrong-answer.html