Exegesis and Hermeneutics in the Churches of the East contains the proceedings of the Bible in
the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Traditions unit of the Society of Biblical Literature's (SBL)
2007 meeting in San Diego California. Biblical professors and scholars from the Eastern and
Oriental Orthodox traditions (the latter including Aramaic Syriac Armenian Arabic Georgian
and Coptic among others) gathered to engage in critical study of the role of the Bible in
eastern Christianity past and present. The collection of articles in Exegesis and Hermeneutics
in the Churches of the East examines the latest scholarly findings in the field of the
utilization and interpretation of the Bible in the Christian communities in the East during the
first five centuries of Christianity. They offer critical evaluations of the early church's
hermeneutical and exegetical tools and methodologies.
