Bart Ehrman, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Doctor of Divinity, author of more than twenty scientific and popular science books on the Bible, the life of Jesus and the history of early Christianity, devoted his present book to the study of the Jewish and Christian writings that made up the Bible , which tell about Ancient Israel and early Christianity. The author examines Scripture from a historical and literary point of view: tries to explain why it is difficult to understand, talks about the early Israeli prophets and prophets from the time of the Babylonian captivity, about the poets and storytellers of Ancient Israel and the Epistles of Paul... Thus, it leads to the understanding that the Bible plays a key role in the history of European civilization.