Russian Bible Wars: Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural Authority
This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture.
| Summary: | This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Origins of the Russian Bible Society -- Freemasonry and its relationship to the Bible Society movement -- Ignaz Fessler -- Aleksandr Fedorovich Labzin -- The new piety and Russian Orthodox churchmen -- Alexander I and imperial patronage of the Bible Society -- The coming of the Bible Society -- Chapter 2 Technology and textology -- The introduction of stereotype printing in Russia -- Affiliated branch chapters and auxiliaries of the Bible Society: marketing the word -- Translating the Bible -- Closure of the Russian Bible Society -- The Gossner affair -- Chapter 3 Foreign and clandestine publishing in Nikolaevan Russia -- Who had the right to distribute Russian scripture? -- Foreign publication of Russian scripture -- The Pavskii affair -- Old Testament translations of the Altai missionary, St. Makarii (Glukharev) -- Chapter 4 The synodal Bible -- The initial debate -- Synodal action and publication of the synodal New Testament -- The synodal Old Testament -- Key participants in the preparation of the synodal OT translation -- The BFBS and the synodal Russian Bible -- Scholarly debate spawned by the Russian Bible -- Chapter 5 Russian biblical translation and the Jewish Question -- Jewish translations from the Hebrew Bible into Russian -- English New Revised Standard Version -- Russian Bible Society Octateuch (St. Petersburg, 1825) -- British and Foreign Bible Society Revised Russian Old Testament, 1875 -- Synodal Old Testament -- Mandel'shtam Pentateuch (Berlin, 1862) -- Gordon/Gershtein/Levanda Pentateuch (Vil'na, 1875) -- Shteinberg Pentateuch (Vil'na, 1901) -- Russian biblical translation and the blood libel issue -- Chapter 6 Colportage, sectarianism, and Russian Bible publication -- Afterword Russian biblical translation in the twentieth century. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1107348315 |