The Religion of the Bible. Christianity. The History of Religious Ideas

The author, a renowned historian and scholar of religion, demonstrates the uniqueness of Christianity against the backdrop of other religious teachings, immersing the reader in the historical context of the biblical tradition. The first part of the book is dedicated... to the corpus of Old Testament texts, revealing the prehistory of Christianity from Abraham to Qumran. The second part introduces Christianity. This book is not a history of confessions and institutions, nor a textbook on Christian dogmatics, but a scholarly investigation of the system of ideas contained in the Old and New Testaments, the acts of Councils, and the establishments of the Church (sacraments and rituals). The book is intended for anyone interested in the history of religions and a field that can be called Comparative History of Consciousness.