RT Book
T1 Russian Bible wars: modern scriptural translation and cultural authority
A1 Batalden, Stephen K. 1945-
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/883485982
AB Although biblical texts were known in Church Slavonic as early as the ninth century, translation of the Bible into Russian came about only in the nineteenth century. Modern scriptural translation generated major religious and cultural conflict within the Russian Orthodox church. The resulting divisions left church authority particularly vulnerable to political pressures exerted upon it in the twentieth century. Russian Bible Wars illuminates the fundamental issues of authority that have divided modern Russian religious culture. Set within the theoretical debate over secularization, the volume clarifies why the Russian Bible was issued relatively late and amidst great controversy. Stephen Batalden's study traces the development of biblical translation into Russian and of the 'Bible wars' that then occurred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Russia. The annotated bibliography of the Russian Bible identifies the different editions and their publication history.
AB Introduction -- 1. Origins of the Russian Bible Society -- 2. Technology and textology -- 3. Foreign and clandestine publishing in Nikolaevan Russia -- 4. The Synodal Bible -- 5. Russian Biblical translation and the Jewish Question -- 6. Colportage, Sectarianism and Russian Bible publication -- Afterword: Russian Biblical translations in the twentieth century -- Appendix: annotated bibliography of the Russian Bible, 1794-1991
OP 389
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BS460.R7
SN 978-1-139-42459-2
K1 Bible
K1 Bible : Translating : History : Soviet Union
K1 Russian language
K1 Bible ; Translating ; Russia ; History
K1 Bible ; Translating ; Soviet Union ; History
K1 Russia ; Church history ; 1801-1917
K1 Russia ; Church history ; 20th century
K1 Soviet Union ; Church history
K1 Russia : Church history, 1801-1917.
K1 Russia : Church history, 20th century.
K1 Soviet Union : Church history.
K1 Russia : Church history : 1801-1917
K1 Russia : Church history : 20th century
K1 Soviet Union : Church history
DO 10.1017/CBO9781139424592