Editorial: The Bible as cultural heritage / W. Beuken, S. Freyne
I. From world to scroll: the Bible and its cultures. 'From the midst of the nations' : the Bible as gateway to ancient Near Eastern cultures / O. Keel
Jews and Greeks : the Diaspora as an experience of cultural diversification / J. van Ruiten
'Telling in their own tongues' : old and modern Bible translations as expressions of ethnic cultural identity / W.G. Oxtoby
'Neither Jew nor Greek' : the challenge of building one multicultural religious community / J.K. Riches. II. From scroll to world: the Bible and the making of culture. The Bible in arts and literature : source of inspiration for poets and painters / D. Jasper
The Bible and the discovery of the world : mission, colonization and foreign development / A. Camps. III. From scroll to book of life: the Bible as source of human values. New ways of reading the Bible in the cultural settings of the New World / J.-P. Ruiz
The Bible as magna carta of movements for liberation and human rights / G.M. Soares-Prabhu
The Bible and the preservation of the world / N. Solomon
'Behold I make all things new' : the final statement of the fourth plenary assembly of the Catholic Biblical Federation / T. Okure. Special column: The active participation of the church of Zaire in building a responsible nation / E. Kabongo Kanundowi.