Russian Bible Wars - Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural Authority

Informationen zum Autor Stephen K. Batalden is Professor of History and Director of the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies at Arizona State University. Klappentext This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture. Zusammenfassung 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. A bibliography of Bible editions in Russian is included. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Stephen K Batalden, Stephen K. Batalden, Stephen K. (Arizona State University) Batalden, Batalden Stephen K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9781316600924
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60092-4
• No. of pages: 398
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Christianity, Literary studies: general, Church history, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Translation and interpretation, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches