With the blessing of His Beatitude Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, this volume of the collected works of S. S. Averintsev includes all his translations from the Holy Scriptures with the translator’s comments. The full text of the translation of the Gospel of Matthew and an extensive commentary on the Gospel of Mark are published for the first time. Other translations with commentaries (the Gospels of Mark, Luke, the Book of Job and the Psalms) were previously published mainly in now inaccessible periodicals. The reader gets the opportunity to get acquainted with the results of many years of work by one of the most remarkable modern researchers - an outstanding philologist, philosopher, Byzantine scholar and biblical scholar. The book is addressed to everyone who seeks to understand the meaning of the Bible and is interested in issues of religion, history, and culture.

On The cover contains an image of Jesus Christ from the mosaics of the Kyiv Hagia Sophia Cathedral.