The study examines Immanuel Kant’s important contribution to the history of biblical exegesis and philosophical hermeneutics. It intends to show the connection between the Copernican revolution and the problems of the interpretation in the main writings of the critical period, with a special regard to the Kantian works of philosophy of religion (Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der bloßen Vernunft, Streit der Fakultäten), which subordinate hermeneutics to the rational religion.