This large international standard work unites Christian and Jewish experts from all over the world. It comprehensively depicts the Old Testament exegesis from the beginnings of the biblical interpretation of the script to current research. The first sub-volume leads from canonical questions to early Jewish, New Testament, rabbinical and patristic interpretations to Augustine. It ends with a summary of the church and synagogue as the respective top soil for the development of binding script interpretation. The work is laid out on five volumes, which are published every one to two years.