The Academic Council of Tbilisi
Theological Academy extends gratitude to the Prime Minister of
Georgia, Mr. Irakli Gharibashvili. His special support to Tbilisi
Theological Academy, founded by the Catholicos-Patriarch of All
Georgia, Ilia II, which even up to the present is under his
constant care, made it possible to, on the one hand, successfully
continue the substantive educational reforms started at this
theological school, and on the other hand, to prepare the ground
for a complete publication of the materially unique and highly
voluminous scientific-theological book “Multilingual Bible” (“Bible
Polyglot”), namely, the second volume of the mentioned work (out of
the fundamental ten-volume edition). The above-mentioned book is
planned to be published in a few months. It can be mentioned that
such a voluminous scientific-theological edition has never been
published in Georgian before. We especially emphasize that the
mentioned work, due to the rich Georgian biblical material
collected in it, is not only of great scientific-theological value,
but it also has national significance because of the deplorable
fact that the “Multilingual Bibles” published in European
scientific centers do not so far take into consideration the
richest Georgian material at all. The same tendency is,
existentially, maintained today, as if there cannot be found any
classical Georgian translations and editions of this most divine of
all books published in the Georgian language, while it can be
clearly said, that the Georgian-language biblical material, with
its editorial and terminological richness and volume, exceeds
greatly the one existing in all the other languages, at large. We
suppose, the current situation shows how special Mr. Irakli
Gharibashvili’s personal contribution is to the appropriate
publication of this work (the second volume of the “Multilingual
Bible”), for which the Academic Council of this school is deeply
grateful to him.