"Bible Encyclopedia" by Archimandrite Nikifor was first published in Moscow in 1891. 763 s. Author - Archimandrite Nikifor (in the world Alexei Mikhailovich Bazhanov 1832-1895) - spiritual writer, rector of the Vysokopetrovsky monastery . The encyclopedia includes about 7,500 explanations of various concepts from the books of the Old and New Testaments. At the same time, theological terms, with the exception of terms of strictly biblical meaning, are omitted. In 1989, the encyclopedia was reprinted by the German Christian publishing house “Light in the East”, and in 1990 it was published in the USSR. In 2000, AST published a new spelling with a change in pagination and placement of illustrations.