A work that intersects the great Russian philosophy of the twentieth century, with the features of Greek art, Russian icons and Western painting, offering scholars and readers a new reading of Chagall's message. An extraordinary book that discovers twenty-two unpublished gouaches among the sixty-two preparatory studies done by Marc Chagall for the graphic Bible of the publisher Ambroise Vollard (1930-1931). The studies and the gouaches, created by Chagall at the beginning of the 1930s, are the two pictorial cycles at the origin of all the artist's graphic work on the Bible, a commitment that will end only after the Second World War with the editions by Tériade. If the preparatory function in relation to the etchings is explicit, the volume also recognizes the anticipatory aspect of the monumental project of the Biblical Message, which will give life to the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice. His commitment as a painter, through the Figures of the Bible, intends to bring back to the world the look of Prophecy whose absence he denounces. The contribution of Sylvie Forestier contextualizes the studies and the gouaches, works of strong and autonomous aesthetic relevance, within the artistic itinerary of Chagall. Nathalie Hazan-Brunet highlights his historical-political commitment. Finally, Evgenia Kuzmina develops an iconographic reading that explains the artist's philosophical and figurative sources.