The Bible in Its Traditions

As a modest counterpoint to the hyper-violence that is shaking the Middle East, we peacefully continue the construction of our digital biblical cathedral, always begging for signs of hope.

We received a very beautiful one: the beginning of a collaboration with the Almine & Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Foundation.

Bernard, Pablo’s grandson, is preparing a beautiful exhibition in Burgos on the biblical roots of Picasso’s work. He agreed to give a sneak peek to BibleArt users (the first ones, below). I would like to thank him warmly for this!

For you, therefore, the news of our construction site during this month of November dedicated to Hope for all the deceased.

Like any ongoing project, our tool still needs some small work to improve. We thank you for your indulgence if you encounter some slowness in loading notes.


WORK CARRIED OUT
Foundations

In the translator’s workshop
Various facets of our art of translation

Why translate the Latin Bible of Saint Jerome?
Episode 2.

At the foundation of our culture, the Bible of Saint Jerome rediscovers today all its scientific relevance. The picturesque “horns of Moses” that have recently occupied us, give us the opportunity to take stock.

Une bible-carrefour de toutes les bibles


Words of the month
Words discovered, rediscovered or proposed in the course of our translation work

“Confessing” is not just confessing. The word has taken on moralizing connotations in everyday French, but in the Bible it has a much more exciting meaning, which attracts human speech to the side of praise.

Confess…God!


Walls & buttresses

Religious contexts: ancient funerary rites
Topography, archaeology, sociology, ancient cultures

At the end of the month of November, traditionally dedicated to the deceased, by visiting one of the most beautiful necropolises in the Holy Land, let’s take a look at the cult of the dead in ancient Israel…

FOR or AGAINST the cult of the dead


Ornaments

Visual art reception

Meditation on death is a pillar of wisdom. The greatest painters have practiced it. It has even become a genre: Vanity, particularly present in the most famous painter of the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso.

A brief history of the Vanities

Picasso’s work is at the crossroads between traditional painting and the multifaceted experimentation of contemporary arts.


MONITORING OF THE WORK

Portrait of the month
The word of the builders of our biblical cathedral.

Marie-Édith Garin, Associate Researcher (Bordeaux)

BibleArt, for me…

It is a collegial work where the charisms of the researchers unite for a work that surpasses them all. Thousands of hours of work, melting and recasting… In chorus we plunge into the heart of the Word and its transmission and try to come back with treasures to be widely disseminated.

I began to participate in the project of the Bible in Its Traditions from 2015 when I had just finished the entire cycle of training in biblical languages and exegesis with the Catholic Institute of Toulouse (TEB). I have worked successively on the translations of several “little prophets,” as well as on that the famous episode of David and Bathsheba (in the second book of Samuel, chapters 11 and 12). For the past five years, I have been translating and annotating the story of Joseph and his brothers (in the book of Genesis, chapters 37 to 50), which is as exciting as a novel, with God as the main author!

Fabulous field of investigation both in breadth and depth… Our Bible could even become a tool for the evangelization of intelligences for current and future generations!

My motto…

“To love is to allow the other to give the best of himself.” It is inspired by our dear Thomas Aquinas: “To love is to want the good.”

My favorite book in the Bible…

I love the Gospel of John because I find in it all my hope: the heart of the Father who sends His Light, the heart of the Son turned towards the Father in the outpouring of the Spirit of Love. The washing of the feet. The priestly prayer of the Good Shepherd. Each of us resting on the Heart of Jesus at each Eucharist. Jesus entrusts the Church, before his birth form his pierced heart, to his sweet mother so that she may immediately receive him in her arms. The “all is accomplished” of the stature of the perfect man. After the resurrection, the Church was handed over to Peter.

I also really like the book of Esther. I admire this courageous and daring woman, who despite her weakness and fears, risks her life to put in place a strategy to save her people!


YOUR SAY

Join our private group!

“It’s beautiful but also so gigantic: it’s going to take a lot of work. I’m not a biblical schoalr, but knowing that I can access your publications is very reassuring! Thank you so much. And Gregorian chants are a real plus…
All our best wishes for the researcher-builders!”
• Pierre L., Paris
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Each month, we share with you the progress of the BibleArt project: a novelty on the biblical text, a novelty on the context around Scripture and a novelty on the reception of the biblical text, especially in the cultural milieu. But also, focus on a theme or a particular point, meetings, portraits, testimonies…


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