The book “Biblical history. Old Testament. New Testament"
Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin is an outstanding Russian biblical scholar, theologian and writer. His name occupies one of the first places among the names of outstanding Russian researchers of Biblical texts. Lopukhin collected and analyzed enormous chronological, archaeological, historical and ethnographic material, which allowed the scientist to compile a monumental work on the Biblical history of the Old and New Testaments. Lopukhin's commentaries on the books of Holy Scripture went through about 20 editions until 1917, and do not lose their relevance today thanks to an unusually deep understanding of Biblical history. And today we bring to your attention a new edition of this work. It was published by the Bertelsmann Media Publishing House Moscow and is called “Biblical History. Old Testament. New Testament". ***
For the first time, “Biblical History,” edited by Professor Alexander Pavlovich Lopukhin, was published in St. Petersburg, from 1904 to 1913, as a free supplement to the magazine “Wanderer.” When starting to publish this work, the editors of the magazine Fr.
In this book, the author reveals to us the historical significance of the facts stated in the Bible, proves that the biblical stories about the creation of man, the Fall, the flood, and the shift of languages have a real historical basis. The book provides many explanations of the life, realities, and traditions of the time when the Bible was created, which help to understand the depth and meaning of Biblical Scripture. In the preface to the first edition, Lopukhin Fr.
According to Alexander Pavlovich, this “circumstance has extremely revived interest in biblical history, which has ceased to be a dry specialty of theologians, and now attracts the attention of both secular learned historians and the entire educated society of all civilized peoples. This interest is also noticeable among us; but, unfortunately, in our country it has not yet emerged from the narrow confines of a circle of specialists, and for our society, in fact, there is literally not a single publicly available book that could serve as a guide or introduction to this deeply interesting and highly instructive field of knowledge. Satisfying this, in Lopukhin's opinion, urgent need is partly what this book is about.
In its main parts, it was compiled several years before its publication and was intended only as a summary for the personal study of a biblical scholar. But the consciousness of the deep need indicated above prompted him to process this summary in such a way that it could, at least in the slightest degree, give a coherent and living course of biblical history with the introduction into it of the most important features from the inexhaustible wealth of the latest biblical-historical research. The author intended his “guide” to be read in general, but would especially like it to find access among young students. According to the deep conviction of the author, biblical history can become an inexhaustible source of moral and higher historical education for any person more or less capable of serious mental life.
According to Professor Lopukhin, “every history is an educator of the mind and heart and a teacher of wisdom; but biblical history in this respect stands above all other stories, because its subject is the central points of the spiritual life of mankind. It reveals the deepest laws of world-historical development. It can show most clearly that in the history of peoples there is nothing accidental or arbitrary, that any attempt to “make history” is meaningless and harmful, because everything awaits and demands the “fulfillment of times,” which can neither be brought closer nor delayed. At the same time, it presents a series of deep everyday experiences of the greatest characters, who, with their virtues and no less their vices, widely open the door to the very depths of a person’s spiritual life. Thus the deepest lessons are taught for anyone with a sufficiently lively moral sense to perceive such astonishing experiences.
*** The first edition of this work at the beginning of the 20th century, according to the author, was met with lively sympathy from the spiritual and secular press, not only in Russia, but also abroad, and despite a significant number of printed copies, it sold out in a relatively short time and did not last for several years. was on sale. Since the demands for it continued, it was decided to make a second edition. And then again and again. To this day, Lopukhin’s “Biblical History” remains the only Russian-language interpretation of the Holy Scriptures in terms of completeness, correctness and detail of presentation. And, as before, it is intended for a wide range of readers.
Essays
- The Apostle Paul in the centers of the classical world // Christian, reading. – 1896. – Part 2.
- Biblical history of the Old Testament: In 2 volumes – Rep. ed. – Sergiev Posad: Holy Trinity. Sergius Lavra, 1998.
- Biblical history of the Old Testament. First foreign edition. – M., 1990. – 402 p. - On tit. l.: Rep. reproduction ed. 1887: Montreal, 1986.
- Biblical History of the Old Testament: A Guide for Schools and Self-Education. – 2nd ed., revised, with photographs of ancient monuments. – St. Petersburg, 1896. – XII, 454 p.: ill.
- Biblical history in the light of the latest research and discoveries: Old Testament: In 2 volumes - St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1889–1890.
- T. 1: From the creation of the world to the prophet Samuel. – 1889. – XXXII, 1000 p.
- T. 2: From the prophet Samuel to the Nativity of Christ. – 1890. – XXXVIII, 1042 p.: ill.
Biblical history in the light of the latest research and discoveries: Old Testament: In 5 volumes - St. Petersburg: Type. Trey, 1913–1915. – Free adj. kzhur. “The Wanderer.”– 1913–1915. – T. 2–5: Type. "Literacy". - T. 1. – 1913. – III, 337 pp., 3 sheets. ill. T. 2. – 1914.-IV, 460 pp.: ill. T. 3. – 1915. –364 p.: ill. T. 4. – 1915. – XII, 416 p.: ill. T. 5. – 1915. – XII, 354 p.
Biblical history in the light of the latest research and discoveries: New Testament: 1 volume - St. Petersburg: Tuzova, 1895. - XXXII, 1184 pp., 1 sheet. map: ill. The Bible and Babylon. – St. Petersburg, 1904. The Bible and natural history. – St. Petersburg: Type. Dep. destinies, 1877. – 9 p. – From: Churches. messenger – No. 26. The Bible and scientific discoveries on the monuments of Ancient Egypt: (Biblical-historical essays). – St. Petersburg: Type. Dobrodeeva, 1885. – 151 p. The Bible and the latest discoveries in the field of hieroglyphic inscriptions on the monuments of Ancient Egypt. – St. Petersburg: Type. Eleonsky, Cens. 1878. – 24 p. Marriage and related relationships according to the laws of Moses. – St. Petersburg, 1879. – 30 p. - Ott. from: Christian, reading. – 1879. – Jan. The Babylonian king of truth Ammurabi and his newly discovered legislation in comparison with the legislation of Moses. – Pg.: Type. Soikina, 1904. – 53 p. - Ott. from: Wanderer. Old Testament prophets: Biblical and historical characteristics // Christian, reading. – 1876. – May – June. External differences of the clergy in the first centuries of Christianity. – St. Petersburg: Type. Dep. Usledov, 1879. – 12 p. The voice of history against negative criticism // Christian, reading. – 1895. – Part 2. Public administration according to the laws of Moses // Christian, reading. – 1879. – May – June. Two words in defense of Biblical history in the light of recent research and discoveries: A forced rebuke to two critics. – St. Petersburg: Type. Stasyulevich, 1894. – 19 p. A day in Livadia: From memories of a trip to Livadia to the place of death in Bose of the deceased king-peacemaker. – St. Petersburg, 1897. – 30 p. Ancient civil history: Notes of lectures given to students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. – SPb.: Lit. Bogdanova, 1896. – 95 pp. The same. – SPb.: Lit. Fomina, 1899. – 94 p. Life overseas: Essays on religious, social, economic and political life in the United States. – St. Petersburg: Type. Dobrodeeva, 1882.-XII, 401 p. The Law of Moses: A Study of the Family, Socio-Economic, and Government Laws of Moses, with the Appendix of the Treatise: The Judgment of Jesus Christ Viewed from a Legal Point of View. – St. Petersburg: Type. Eleonsky, 1882. – VI, 313 p. The overseas West in religious and moral terms: Public lectures given during Lent 1886 at the Society for the Propagation of Religious and Moral Education in the Spirit of the Orthodox Church, in favor of the insufficient students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and students of the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary. – St. Petersburg: Type. Eleonsky, 1886 (region 1887). – 84 s. Land and property according to the laws of Moses // Christian, reading. – 1881. -Ch. 1. The idea of God's Providence in history, mainly according to the views of Blessed Augustine and Bossuet: Speech read at the solemn act of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy on February 4. 1892 – St. Petersburg: Type. Katansky, 1892. – 87 p. Same. – 2nd ed. – St. Petersburg: Tipo-lit. Lopukhina, 1898. – 126 p. From a trip to Chervonnaya Rus and its environs: Travel impressions while traveling through Galicia in the summer of 1895. – St. Petersburg: Tipo-lit. Puhira, 1897. – Extracted. from: Church. messenger – 1896. The Herods, their dynasty, its representatives and their fate. – St. Petersburg: Type. Lopukhina, 1900. Lecture notes on ancient civil history given to 2nd year students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy... in 1889–1890 academic years. year. – St. Petersburg: Lit. Grobovoy, Cens. 1890. – 24 p. History of Assyro-Babylonia. -SPb.: Lit. Bogdanova, 1892. – 22 p. Notes of lectures on ancient civil history given to students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy in 1894–1895. – St. Petersburg: Lit. Bogdanova, 1895. – 107 p. – On the 1st p.: Review of the most important schools or trends in modern historiography. Lecture notes on the philosophy of history given to 1st year students... in the 1890–1891 academic year. year. – St. Petersburg: Lit. Bogdanova, 1891. –28 s…. in 1891–1892 academic years. year. – 1892. – 25 p. ... in 1892–1893 school years. year. – 1893. – 16 p. ... in 1893–1894 school years. year. – 1894. –21 p. Crisis in the negative school: On the question of the historical authenticity of the Book of Acts of the Apostles // Christian, reading. – 1896. – Part 2. Lectures on the philosophy of history, given in 1900–1901 to students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. – St. Petersburg, 1901. –86 p. On the banks of the Rhine: From travel notes and impressions of one of the participants in the 5th International Old Catholic Congress in Bonn (July 5 - Aug. 26, 1902). – Pg.: Type. Lopukhina, 1902. – 66 p. The present and future of Orthodoxy in America: Lecture. read at the solemn meeting of the Brotherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary on February 9. 1897. – St. Petersburg: Tipo-lit. Puhira. – Extracted from: Church. messenger – 1897. – No. 9–11, 13, 14. Unwritten sayings of Christ the Savior in the Gospel and His newly discovered sayings: With a photograph from a newly discovered monument of ancient writing. – St. Petersburg: Tipo-lit. Lopukhina, 1897.–20 p. Same. – 2nd ed., rev. and additional – St. Petersburg: Type. Lopukhina, 1898. – 31 p.: ill. – Bibliography at the end of the book. A new field for the mission of the Holy Orthodox Church: Nestorians or Syrochaldeans, their origin, history, current state and desire for Orthodoxy: Reading at the solemn meeting of the St. Petersburg Brotherhood of the Most Holy Theotokos, February 2. 1898 – St. Petersburg: Type. Lopukhina, 1898. Conversion of St. Apostle Paul // Christian, reading. – 1880.– 4.2. Review of the work of F. Vigouroux “Biblical Dictionary. Vol. 1–12" // Christian, reading. – 1893. – Part 1. In memory of Afanasy Fedorovich Bychkov. – St. Petersburg: Type. Lopukhina, 1899. – 13 p. – Extracted from: Church. messenger – 1899. – No. 14. In memory of the historian of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy I.A. Chistovich: Obituary. – St. Petersburg, Cens. 1893. – 11 p. – Extracted from: Church. messenger – 1893. – No. 45. Primitive humanity, its history, culture and Antiquity: (According to the teachings of Revelation, Genesis 4 and 5 chapters and research. 1879).Religion in America. – St. Petersburg: Type. Dobrodeeva, 1882. – VIII, 272 p. Speech delivered before the public defense of a dissertation submitted for the degree of master, entitled "Roman Catholicism in America." – St. Petersburg: Type. Dep. destinies, 1881. – 16 p. – Extracted from: Church. messenger Roman Catholicism in America: A Study of the Present State and Causes of the Rapid Growth of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States of North America. – St. Petersburg: Type. Dobrodeeva, 1881. – VI, 440 p. A Guide to the Biblical History of the Old Testament. – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1888. – VIII, 431 p. A Guide to the Biblical History of the New Testament. – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1889. – VII, 464 p. Freedom of Religious Conscience in America: (Essay on the relationship between Church and State in the historical development and current state in the United States of North America). – M.: Univ. typ., Cens. 1881. – 84 p. Saint John Chrysostom as a preacher of philanthropy and alms // Christian, reading. – 1897. – 4.1. Seventieth anniversary of the spiritual and academic journal “Christian Reading” (1821–1895). – St. Petersburg, 1896. – 30 p. – Extracted from: Christian, reading. – 1896. Relations between the American Episcopal Church and the Orthodox East on the issue of the union of Churches // Christian, reading. – 1882. – Part 2; 1883. – Part 3. The modern West in religious and moral terms: (Public lectures given during Lent in 1885 and 1886 at the Society for the Propagation of Religious and Moral Education in the Spirit of the Orthodox Church for the benefit of insufficient students of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. - St. Petersburg: Typ. Eleon- skogo. Censor. 1885. – 79 p.Centenary of the Orthodox Mission in North America. 1794–1894: Historical sketch of her activities in memory of her centenary, 25 September. 1894 – St. Petersburg: Type. Katansky 1894 (reg. 1885]. – 33 pp. – Extracted from: Christian, reading. – 1894. Church and religious life and theological thought in Russia according to Palmer’s notes. – St. Petersburg: Type. Eleonsky, Cens. 1883. – 97 p. – From: “The Wanderer.” Exam notes on ancient general civil history. – SPb.: Lit. Bogdanov, 1896–1900. ... for 1895–1896 academic years. year. – 1896. – 15 p. ... for 1897–1898 academic years. year. – 1899. – 15 p. ... for 1899–1900 academic years. year. – 1900. – 16 p. Translations, publication, editing
- Apostolic Constitution of Pope Leo XIII on the maintenance and establishment of ritual and discipline of the Eastern Churches: Full text in Russian. lane with critical comments. – St. Petersburg: Yakovlev Printing House, 1895. – 2, 19 p.
- History of the Christian Church in the 19th century: With illustrations representing portraits of famous figures and images of the most important events of the 19th century: In 2 volumes / Ed. – Pg., 1900–1901. – Free. adj. to the journal "Wanderer".
- T. 1: Heterogeneous Christian West. – Pg., 1900. – VI, 588 pp.: ill.
- T. 2: Orthodox Christian East. – Pg.: Type. Lopukhina, 1901. -VI, 758 p.: ill.
Orthodox Theological Encyclopedia, or Theological Encyclopedic Dictionary, containing the information necessary for everyone on all the most important subjects of theological knowledge in alphabetical order / Ed. edited by prof. A.P. Lopukhina and others - Pg., 1900–1911. – T. 1–11 (A – Constantinople). – Ed. not completed. Reflections on the life, suffering and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Newly Discovered Work of Thomas a à Kempis / Trans. from lat. original. – St. Petersburg, 1900. Symphony on the Old and New Testaments: A comprehensive alphabetical collection of words and texts of the canonical books of the Bible based on the text of the Russian translation, published with the blessing of the Holy Synod / Ed. – St. Petersburg: Type. Lopukhina, 1900. – 1616 p. Same. – [Rep. ed.) - St. Petersburg, 1994. The works of our holy father John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, in Russian translation: In 12 volumes - St. Petersburg: Type. Lopukhina, 1896–1906. Explanatory Bible, or Commentary on all the books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments: Vol. 1–12 / Ed. A.P. Lopukhina. – St. Petersburg: Print. graph. institute Lukshevich, 1904–1913 (Public theological library). – Free adj. to the jury. "Wanderer". – 1904–1913. Same. – 2nd ed. – [Rep. ed.] - Stockholm: Institute of Bible Translation, 1987. - On tit. l. exit Dan. orig.: Petersburg, 1904–1913. Farrar Frederick William. The Life of Jesus Christ: Parts 1–2 / New lane. from 30th English ed. – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1885. -XXXIV, 682 p. – Bibliography: pp. 680–682. Same. – 2nd ed. review again, and correct. ill.: From adj. maps of Palestine. – XVII, 823 p., 1 l. map: ill. – Bibliography: pp. 821–828. Same. – 3rd public access. ed. – 1887. – XXXV, 586 p. Same. – 4th public access. ed. – 1890.-XXXV, 586 p., 16 p. ill.Same. – 5th ed.: With adj. maps of Palestine. – 1890. – Bibliography. at the end of the 2nd volume. The same. – 6th public access. ed. – 1893. – XXXV, 586 pp., 16 l. ill. Same. – 7th public access. ed. – 1899. Same. – 8th ed. – 1900. Farrar F.V. Life and works of St. Apostle Paul / Trans. from 19th eng. ed. – Il. ed. – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1887.-XXX, 1077 pp., 4 p. map: ill., map. Same. – 2nd ed. – 1901. -XXXII, 1066 pp., 1 l. map: ill. Same. – 3rd public access. ed.: In 2 parts – 1887, 845 p.: ill. Same. – 4th public access. ed. – 1893. – 845 p., ill. Same. – 5th public access. ed.: Parts 1–2. – 1911. – 876 p.: ill. Farrar F.V. The life and works of the Holy Fathers and Teachers of the Church: Essays on church history in biographies / Transl. from English – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1891.-XI, 4, 1036 p. Same. – 2nd ed. – In 2 vols. – Pg.: Typ. Lopukhina, 1902–1903. Farrar F.V. At the Dawn of Christianity, or Scenes from the Times of Nero: A Historical Story / Trans. from English with explanations and notes. – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1893. – XVII, 643 p. Same. – 2nd ed. – 1901.-XXI, 643 p. Farrar F.V. The first days of Christianity: Parts 1–2 / Transl. with last, English ed. – St. Petersburg: Tuzov, 1888. -XXVII, 993 p. Same. – 2nd ed. – 1892. – 995 p. Same. – 3rd ed. – 1915. -XVI, 1008 p. – Bibliography: p. 824–978. Christian charity in the Ancient Church. Op. G. Ulgorna / Ed. – St. Petersburg, 1900. 
