Russian Bible wars : modern scriptural translation and cultural authority / by Stephen K. Batalden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Batalden, Stephen K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Translating--Russia--History.

Bible.

Bible--Translating--Soviet Union--History.

Russian language.

Russia--Church history--1801-1917.

Russia.

Russia--Church history--20th century.

Soviet Union--Church history.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107357938

1107357934

9781107237971

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9781107352933

1107352932

OCLC:

829706613

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32601 hdl