In this essay collection, the authors describe the trend toward synchronic methods in biblical exegesis, or interpreting biblical texts as the result of a literary rather than a historical process, and discuss and apply fifteen specific methods to interpreting Old and New Testament texts.

Patrick Chatelion Counet, Ph.D. (1995) in Biblical Theology, is Lecturer of the New Testament at the University of Nijmegen.
Ulrich Berges, Ph.D. (1988) in Biblical Theology, is Professor of Old Testament exegesis at the University of Nijmegen. He has published mainly on the books of Samuel, Isaiah, Lamentations, Psalms and Job.