Soviet Magazine Puts New Testament on Installment Plan
A leading Soviet Bible scholar said today a Soviet magazine plans to serialize the New Testament in an effort to hype its sales.
“At first, I was shaken by such an indecency,” said Sergei S. Averintzev, “but then I thought, it’s good.”
Averintzev, 61, said he was commissioned to write footnotes to the New Testament, which is to be published in the magazine In the World of Books. He said a Soviet publishing house also was preparing a book edition of the New Testament with his notes.
The scholar, who is in Israel with a delegation of Soviet film makers, is a member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and has written books and articles on ancient Greek and Byzantine culture and the Bible.
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