''The World of the Bible'' (french: Le Monde de la Bible), published by

Bayard Presse Bayard Presse is one of the oldest press and publishing companies of France, being founded in 1870. The company has various media outlets both in its native France and abroad. As of 2019, it reports approximately two thousand employees, two hundred ...

, is a 150-page quarterly review that offers a historical, archeological, and artistic approach to the biblical universe. It succeeded ('

Bible The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts ...

and Holy Land'), , a periodical published by the eponymous organization from 1957 to 1977. The editor in chief of ''The World of the Bible'' is Benoît de Sagazan since October 2008. Due to its editorial style, ''The World of the Bible'' is more appropriately called a review than a magazine. Its writers and contributors are often authorities in their disciplines, which vary from exegesis, history of religions, archeology, to art history. Established scholars, such as

Thomas Römer Thomas Christian Römer (born 13 December 1955, in Mannheim) is a German-born Swiss biblical scholar, exegete, philologist, professor, and Reformed minister. After teaching at the University of Geneva, he became professor of the Old Testament ...

(professor at the Collège de France), Daniel Marguerat (

University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...

), Marie-Françoise Baslez (Sorbonne), Michel Quesnel (

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), Simon Claude Minouni (EPHE), Régis Burnet ( UCLouvain), Bertrand Lafond (CNRS), François Brossier (professor emeritus at the Catholic Institute of Paris), and archeologist Estelle Villeneuve (Maison René Ginouvès of archeology and ethnology, Nanterre), preside over its editorial and scientific committee. The review publishes English and French e-books in the fields mentioned above. It maintains a partnership wit
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in Germany an

in Italy.

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