Stephen K. Batalden

Russian Bible Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

This first comprehensive history of the Russian Bible demonstrates how scriptural translation exposed serious divisions in modern Russian religious culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9781316600924
• ISBN-10: 1316600920
• Artikelnr.: 44124398

Autorenporträt

Stephen K. Batalden is Professor of History and Director of the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.