This document contains a review that has a very good basis on the panorama of the methods that exist today and in this way offers the researcher an orientation about the possibilities and limits of those approaches. Thus, this document investigates how the meaning of the Bible came to be known—the meaning in which the words of man and the Word of God work together in the uniqueness of historical events and at the same time the eternity of the eternal Word that is always relevant in each age. - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger in Preface