The article dispels the myth that the Reformation caused interest in the Bible through
critical activity of Martin Luther. The humanism of the 15th century, in the first stage of the
Renaissance, through the works of Jan Gerson, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Thomas Morus,
Laurentino Vall, focused interest on the Bible philosophical study, and on popularizing it
in national languages.
The golden era of the Polish Bible is constituted by publishing the New Testament
translated by Stanislaw Murzynowski in 1553, issuing the Leopolita’s Bible — the first
Polish Bible translated by Jan Nicz Leopolita for the Catholic Church in 1561, editing the
Jakub Wujek Bible in 1599 for Jesuits and the Gdansk Bible in 1632, translated by Daniel
Mikolajewski.
