`titrebDo the Church Fathers have anything to say for Biblical exegesis today??`/titrebBiblical exegesis today is in a process of rapid change, due to its encounter with linguistic sciences and to the dialogue with hermeneutical philosophy. This means that the historical paradigm is no longer as meaningful as it once was and must, at the very least, come to terms with other epistemological principles. Hence – and unintentionally – exegetes are rediscovering a certain complicity with Patristic hermeneutics that now appear far less foreign to them than before. This shift in the way the Church Fathers’ work is perceived can, inversely, remind today’s exegetes of the interest of an approach attentive to the phenomenon of the canon and more sensitive to the texts’ polysemia. Thus, the role of the reader is especially highlighted within the framework of a process of communication that is more complex than the simple outlining of the literary form of some original core, supposed to be the bearer of a ‘first’ meaning accessible through the historical method.