BIBLICAL BEGINNINGS OF CRIMINAL PROTECTION OF CULTURAL VALUES (BASED ON THE MOSAIC PENTATEUCH) Bespalko Viktor Gennadievich, PhD at law, associate professor. <...> E-mail: viktor_bespalko@mail.ru Annotation: The author advances and substantiates the hypothesis that modern criminal legislation on the protection of cultural values from crimes goes back to the ancient period of the Bible story of law and state, described by Moses in the Pentateuch. <...> To achieve this goal the author applies historical and legal, comparative legal research methods, uses numerous references to the texts of the Old Testament, their interpretation given by the Russian and foreign Biblical scholars, and other sources. <...> The article draws historical parallels between the relevant rules of the Mosaic criminal law and criminal prohibitions, which are contained in Old Russian, prerevolutionary, Soviet and modern Russian legislation. <...> Hebrew and Old Russian criminal law shows that the criminal-law protection of cultural values has a religious nature. <...> The article also illustrates evolution and development of biblical and legal ideas about the protective function of criminal law in the area defense of cultural values from crimes. <...> Bespalko V.G. Biblical religious and moral sources of anti-corruption in the Pentateuch of Moses // Public and ЩrТЯКtО ХКа. 2013. № III. <...> Bespalko V.G. Old Testament notion of crimes against morality according to Genesis // Problems of the material and of procedural criminal law: a collection. <...> M.: Publishing House of the Russian Customs Academy, 2010. <...> Bespalko V.G. Old Testament prototypes of military МrТЦТЧКХ ХКа ТЧ DОutОrШЧШЦв // LОРТsХКtТШЧ. 2013. № 5. <...> Bespalko V.G. Ancient Old Testament type of environmental crime in the Pentateuch of Moses // EnvironЦОЧtКХ LКа. 2014. № 1. <...> Bespalko V.G. Ancient evidence of customs offenses (based on the book of Genesis and its interpretations) // BuХХОtТЧ ШП tСО RussТКЧ CustШЦs AМКНОЦв. 2014. № 1. <...> Bespalko V.G. Spiritual security as an object of criminal law proteМtТШЧ // LКа КЧН SОМurТtв. 2006. № 3–4. <...> Bespalko V.G. History of development of legislation on the protection of cultural property from criminal attacks // CuХturО: ЦКЧКРОЦОЧt, ОМШЧШЦТМs, ХКа. 2013. № 2. <...> Bespalko V.G. Book of Numbers of the Old Testament about the crimes against life // Gaps in Russian legislation. 2013. № 5. <...> Bespalko V.G. Concept and characteristics of cultural values as objects of crime <...>