This book is an attempt to provide the theological scholars a bird's eye view on various methodologies. These methodologies would be beneficial to make the readers aware of the author, text and context based perspectives in a very succinct manner. This also deals with the various streams of thoughts concentrating on the Philosophical, Roman Catholic and Ecumenical strands; Asian, Indian, Vernacular and other strands. This book will help the readers to see, how these perspectives will be helpful in reading the biblical text, especially the Old Testament texts. Contents Preface 1. Introduction 2. What is Hermeneutics? Things to be Kept in Mind for Doing Hermeneutics 3. Risk in Hermeneutics 4. Bible Centered Approach 5. The Patristic Period 6. Middle Ages (AD 600-1500) 7. Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment 8. Historical Hermeneutics of the Old Testament During the 17th and 18th Centuries 9. The Nineteenth Century Developments in Hermeneutics 10. Hermeneutics of Neo-Orthodox Theologians 11. Philosophical Hermeneutics 12. New Hermeneutics 13. Roman Catholic Hermeneutics 14. The Political/Subaltern/Contextual Hermeneutics 15. The Asian Hermeneutics 16. Dhvani - An Indian Hermeneutics 17. Relational Hermeneutics 18. The Ecumenical Hermeneutics 19. Indigenous Hermeneutics 20. Vernacular Hermeneutics 21. The Current Concepts and Understanding in New Literary Critical Methodologies or Text Oriented Hermeneutics 22. The Socio-Scientific Approaches 23. Pedagogical Reading of the Biblical Text of Balaam and Balak form Socio Anthropological, Hybridity and Subaltern Perspective (Numbers 22-24) and Seeing a Relevant Theology of the Exilic and Post-Exilic Times Conclusion Bibliography