Brest Bible
The Brest Bible (also Radziwill Bible ) was the first Protestant Bible translation into Polish . It was printed in Brest in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1563 .
prehistory
In 1551/53 the first printed New Testament in Polish was published in Königsberg , translated by the Lutheran Stanisław Murzynowski. A New Testament followed in Kraków in 1556 and the first complete Bible ( Leopolita Bible ), also in Kraków, in 1561 , both Catholic translations based on the Latin Vulgate .
Brest Bible
The text was prepared by some Reformed (Calvinist) theologians based on the original Hebrew and Greek texts and approved by two Reformed synods. The most important initiator and supporter of the Bible edition was Prince Mikołaj Radziwiłł "the Black" , who was also called the father of Calvinism in Poland-Lithuania .
expenditure
- Hans Rothe, Friedrich Scholz (eds.): Brester or Radziwiłł Bible, Brest 1563. Biblia Świeta to jest Księgi Starego i Nowego Zakonu. 2 volumes. Ferdinand Schöningh, 2001 (= Biblia Slavica. Section II: Polish Bibles, Volume 2.) , ISBN 978-3-506-71656-9 . 1,703 pages ( review ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the early Polish Bible prints Mariusz Krajcarz: Older Dutch and Polish Bible translations . In: »Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria językoznawcza «. Volume 20, Issue 1. 2013, pp. 95–125, here p. 103ff. ( PDF )
- ↑ Lorenz Hein: Italian Protestants and their influence on the Reformation in Poland during the two decades before the Sandomir Consensus 1570 , Brill, Leiden 1974, ISBN 978-9-00403-893-6 , pp. 13-21
literature
- David A. Frick: The Brest Bible of 1563: Translators, Sponsors, Readers . In: Hans Rothe, Friedrich Scholz (eds.): Brester or Radziwiłł Bible, Brest 1563 . Volume 2. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2003. pp. 1661-1703.
