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 Literatures 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 churchs hermeneutical and exegetical tools and methodologies.