Andrei Desnitsky

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leading Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of History and Culture of the Ancient Orient. Consultant at the Institute for Bible Translation (2014), participated in preparation of a new translation of the Old Testament into Russian and in other projects on Bible translation. The author of the books Introduction to Biblical Exegesis (Moscow: PSTGU, 2011), Modern Bible Translation: Theory and Methodology (Moscow: PSTGU, 2015) and others.