The thesis The Biblical Exegesis in dialogue with the Literary Studies presents a new perspective over the exegesis studies of biblical texts from actual theoretical presuppositions of the literary studies. The differential aspect comes from questions under research by the Aesthetics of Reception and Effect, which aim the elaboration of new categories for the understanding of the reading processes. The study also aims at formulating a historiography of the Christian interpretative act along with premises developed for reading and understanding of literary texts, which are transposed to the exegesis field. Since this latter has been equally open to dialogue and questioning of interpretations based in essentialist presuppositions. In such a sense, considering the history of the interpretative acts, new hermeneutical-literary approaches are articulated with the understanding and the biblical exegesis configuration as a Christian literary phenomenon and as a meta-textual genre. The heuristic premises developed by Wolfgang Iser, which offer new ways of meaning production to the imaginary and the interpretative processes - particularly in the appreciation of the hermeneutic work of St. Augustine and in the ancient and medieval hermeneutic discourse - towards a literary anthropology represent the epistemological, theoretical and aesthetical guidelines of this project.