Bible. Book of Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament

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The Bible is not only the basis of Christianity, but also the most important part of the entire world culture. Her Old Testament was written in Hebrew. These texts, created from the 1450th to the 230st century. BC e., were carefully preserved during rewriting and by the 1866th century. n. e. thanks to the efforts of Jewish scholars - the Masoretes - who worked with the ancient manuscripts of the Holy Scriptures, they acquired a definitively established form. Old Testament, translated in the III-I century. BC e. in Alexandria into ancient Greek, became known as the Septuagint, that is, "the translation of the seventy elders." The New Testament of the Bible was also written in ancient Greek. At the end of the IV century. n. e. the Vulgate appeared - a translation of the Bible into Latin, and it was this "Latin Bible" that was first printed in 1867 by Johannes Gutenberg. For the first time in Russia, this publication publishes images of XNUMX original drawings by Gustave Doré. The talented French artist worked on them for two years, when they were preparing to publish the Bible, translated into German by the writer and rabbi Ludwig Philippson. The Bible illustrated by Doré was first published in XNUMX, and engravings made from the master's drawings were printed in it. This edition became so popular that in XNUMX Gustave Doré's original drawings were published as a separate three-volume set. It is they, and not the engravings made on them, that are reproduced in this edition.

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Publication language: Russian

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