hermeneut
A practitioner of hermeneutics, someone who interprets a text, especially a holy text.
Moses, full of sacrificial institutes, is the text, Isaiah and all the prophets are the hermeneuts[…].
An interpreter of culture, experience, etc.
Oh, an ardent hermeneut might try to distinguish his or her own experience as more intensively "pop" than that of less authentic metaconsumers passing through Coke's world.
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek ἑρμηνευτής (hermēneutḗs, “interpreter”).
Related words
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry hermeneut (CC BY-SA 4.0).