THE POLISH JOURNAL OF BIBLICAL RESEARCH Vol. 15, No. 1 (29) ISSN 1641-7224 February 2016 The Enigma Press, ul. Podedworze 5, 32-031 Mogilany, Poland; E-mail: enigma@post.pl RAJMUND PIETKIEWICZ Pontiical Faculty of Theology in Wrocław THE MILLENNIUM BIBLE (1965-2015) The Millennium Bible 1 is the most signiicant contemporary Polish translation of the Holy Scripture, the irst Catholic translation of the whole Bible from the original languages into Polish, and the irst trans- lation of the Bible into Polish since the Renaissance. The year 2015 marks the iftieth anniversary of the irst edition of the Millennium Bible. 1. The Origin and History of the Millennium Bible The idea of a new translation appeared in 1958, at the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec (near Cracow). The originators of the idea were Karol Meissner OSB and Dominik Michałowski OSB († 1987), who were inspired by the appearance of the Jerusalem Bible. The next step was taken when Tyniec elders entrusted Augustyn Jankowski OSB († 2005) with the realization of the project, who in turn notiied biblical schol- ars of the project, during a meeting of the Biblical Section held as part of the Vice-Chancellors and Polish Professors of Theological Institutes Convention (Lublin 1958). It was in the same year that the Pallottinum Publishing House declared its intention to publish the new translation of the Bible. During the Academic Seminar (I Symposium of Polish Biblical Scholars, Cracow 1959), Jankowski, who later became the chief editor of the Millennium Bible, set about assembling four teams: for translating, revising, dealing with literary correction, and the so- 1 In working on a monograph Biblia Polonorum. The History of the Bible in the Polish Language, Volume 5, The Millennium Bible (1965-2015), Pallottinum, Poznań 2015, I collected 2,500 documents from several Polish and foreign archives (mainly the Pallottinum in Poznań and the private archives of A. Jankowski and K. Romaniuk). The archive material has been scanned and annotated and are available on CD at the Pallot- tinum, the Tyniec Abbey and from the author.