Biblia – Cartea simbolurilor
The Bible – Book of Symbols

Summary/Abstract: Critics and historians who have addressed Ukraine’s most important thinker of the 18th century have made numerous statements and comments on the importance of the Bible for Skovoroda’s thought. These efforts to emphasize the crucial role of the Bible in Skovoroda’s interpretation of reality are centered on the idea that the Bible is a symbolic world that cannot be understood in any other way than allegorically. The emblematic nature of the biblical images allows Skovoroda to interpret them as a species of divinely inspired poetry or fiction. He shows how the Scripture contains a multitude of images through which the truth is told differently and a text is created, a work that aims “to make spirit out of flesh”.

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