“This book is the product of over twenty years of answering peoples questions. This book is the first volume and deals with Biblical questions. The answers to these questions are short and precise to suit the every reader who does not have time to read long and detailed articles.” (His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church).
H.H. Pope Shenouda III (Coptic: Ⲡⲁⲡⲁ Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ϣⲉⲛⲟⲩϯ ⲅ̅ Papa Abba Šenoude pimah šoumt , Arabic: بابا الإسكندرية شنودة الثالث Bābā al-Iskandarīyah Shinūdah al-Thālith; born Nazeer Gayed Roufail نظير جيد روفائيل ) was the 117th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria from his consecration on 14 November 1971 until death. Previously, as Father Antonios the Syrian, Pope Cyril VI appointed him to the bishopric of Christian Education and as Dean of the Coptic Orthodox Theological Seminary, and renamed him Shenouda in honour of the renowned scholar and writer in Coptic, Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite on 30 September 1962.
In 2000, Pope Shenouda III was awarded the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence by UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura.