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Profesora Imanuela Bencingera (1865-1935) privātkolekcija Latvijas Universitātes Bibliotēkas krājumā

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The private library of Immanuel Benzinger (1865-1935), a professor of theology at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Latvia from 1921 till 1935, is one of remarkable historical collections at the disposal of the Library of the University of Latvia. It comprises literature that reflects all areas of prof. Immanuel Benzinger’s interests and had provided him a high level of competence in the field of theology, covering a broad spectrum of research materials on the Old Testament, biblical archeology and biblical geography, biblical languages and resources for studying them, etc.etc. This historical collection mostly represents books issued at the end of the19th century and the first decades of the 20th century and also contains editions on the history of religion, literature on the Old Testament, historical materials about the Holy Land in relation to three major religions - Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and archaeological research in Palestine, Israel, Syria and other areas of this region, and about Ancient Egypt, Babylon and Phoenicia as well. From about 1300 titles of the items initially, there has survived less than 700 nowadays, as the Library was forced to carry out "a stock purification" of theological literature during the Soviet-era censorship, however, there has still remained the most valuable part of this private collection, ready to be explored and used.