Methods of biblical interpretation

Abstract

An intelligent reading of the Bible can´t be done without methodological steps in order to keep a certain distance between the reader and the text given for interpretation. These different steps, when organized in a coherent way, offer diverse methodologies of biblical analysis. After some considerations on the necessity to use a critical methodology to study biblical texts, the article goes on analysing different phases in the study of the Bible and keeping in mind different trends from specialists, such as: preparatory phase, synchronic reading, diachronic reading, historic reading. Then follows the presentation of the classical historic method and its processus. It is only then, that the reader could grasp to what extent the biblical reading has stood in its own ground and how it has been enriched with new methodological developments.