I libri di Dio. Breve storia dei testi cristiani

This book tells the story of Christian texts, from the distant origins of the Hebrew Bible to recent decades’ sensational finds of manuscripts that were believed to be lost, both in the desert sands and in European libraries. The tale involves oft-forgotten translators and philologists, heretics and bishops, patriarchs and printers, clerics and laypeople, hermits and humanists, entrepreneurs and counterfeiters, men and women. They participated in events that for over two millennia united, but also set apart, the Orient and the West. The author focuses on texts that are believed to be divinely inspired and were transformed into sacred scriptures. These scriptures, in turn, gave rise to countless other writings that offer translations and commentary – books of God that contribute to an extensive ideal library.