The section ‘The Bible and Christian Writings’ is mainly concerned with the Bible and history of society, religious systems, diversity of languages,  history of culture and literature. The main issues are: origin and development of writing; printing and the Bible, the languages of the Bible: Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek; Semitic languages; parts of the Old Testament (Tanakh); the Old Testament textology; history and how it is reflected in the Tanakh; ideology and  religious concepts of Tanakh; Babylonian Exile and its influence on the Bible; literature of the Second Temple; the Bible anthology; literary forms of the Jewish text: genres, poetics, stylistics; Midrash, Targum, Talmud; Jewish and Christian methods of exegesis; New Testament: its relations to the Tanakh,  Septuagint и Aramaic Targum; the Biblical canon, its history; Apocryphas and pseudepigraphon; language and style of the New Testament; the Biblical translations: from Septuagint till today; theory and practice if the Biblical translation; patristic literature and the Bible; the Biblical conceptions, the language expressions, origin and development; the Bible and liturgy; the Bible in the Middle Ages literature; the Bible and national literatures.