Former director of the
Osservatore Romano
, Giovanni Maria Vian has been teaching ancient Christian literature for three decades at the public university La Sapienza in Rome.
He has just published a work called
The Books of God.
Brief history of Christian texts
(Salvator), which offers a very accessible synthesis of current knowledge on these sacred texts of Christianity.
In France, their history is not well known, even if our country has played a role in their dissemination.
LE FIGARO.
- How did the Bible come about?
Giovanni Maria VIAN.
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These sacred texts of Jews and Christians, fruits and objects of faith but also dreams of millions of believers throughout history, are the result of a slow process that has lasted more than a millennium.
This begins with the oldest Jewish oral traditions, in the tenth century BC.
It continued until the 1st century AD, when Christians wrote the books of the New Testament.
As for the drafting ...
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