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The collection of essays presents the papers which were given at the second European conference of orthodox and western exegetes in 2001. Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox exegetes as well as a Jewish representative met in the Bulgarian monastery of Rila. The them of the conference was ‚the Old Testament as Christian bible'. The 15 essays deals with 4 subject areas: the OT in the Christian tradition, the OT in the New Testament and in ancient Judaism, the canon of the OT, and messianic texts and their Christian meaning. Biblical Interpretation and Hermeneutics of various faith-traditions were clearly worked out in the contributions. The increasing insight into the deficiency of the literary-historical approach in view of theology and proclamation contributes, according to the contributors, to an openness to seek and open up new ways for exegesis [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]