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Biblical Beasts and Monsters
Biblical Beasts and Monsters is a kind of gallery of fantastic creatures that appear on the pages of the holy book of Judaism and Christianity.
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- Author
- Bartłomiej Grzegorz Sala
- Graphic design
- Błażej Ostoja Lniski
- Format
- 165 × 235 mm
- Pages
- 224
- Number of images
- 20
- ISBN
- 978-83-7576-413-0
- EAN
- 9788375764130
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Issue number
- I
- Year of publication
- 2019
- Language
- Polish
Biblical Beasts and Monsters is a kind of gallery of fantastic creatures that appear on the pages of the holy book of Judaism and Christianity. While working on the book, Bartłomiej Grzegorz Sala took into account eleven historical and contemporary Polish translations of the Bible used by various religious factions, because alongside imprecise translations, the number of Biblical monsters has grown. In order to provide a comprehensive description, the author also looked into the barely known apocrypha — ancient Jewish and Christian books written at the same time as the proper Biblical texts, which were ultimately not included in any of the canons of scripture. As a result, the book contains over 60 types of fantastic creatures that appear in the canonical books and their different translations as well as apocryphal literature, collected in one place and described with words stemming from 77 ancient texts accompanied with the author’s comments explaining the origin of each creature and making it easier to make one’s way in the world of the Bible, ancient Judaism and Christianity, the world which often made use of the motifs of terrifying beasts, scary monsters and other supernatural beings in order to illustrate truths of the faith in a vivid way.