The rereading of one of the most extraordinary episodes of cultural history between East and West: the Greek translation of the Bible. The great code of Western literature, which determined the idea of the sacred in the West, has lived for thousands of years through its rewritings: multiple editions, different authors, different canons, different originals. A history spanning many centuries that has stubbornly crossed different cultures, historical eras and worlds and which has marked, starting from the ancient Near East, the fate of the West. Arduini tells about originals that cannot be found but that perhaps it is not so necessary to find, about translations that are valid as sources and about sources that are contradictory. It tells how the Bible lives today thanks to hundreds of translators and 600 million readers in 1200 translation projects around the world.