Ostroger Bible
The Ostroger Bible is the first printed complete Bible in Church Slavonic . It was built in what is now the Ukrainian city of Ostroh in 1580/1581. The first printer from Moscow, Ivan Fyodorov , was involved in the printing , while the Ruthenian scholar Herasym Smotryzkyj was an important contributor to the creation of the text .
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The Ostrog Bible is not a complete new translation. Rather, a copy of the first complete handwritten Church Slavonic Bible, the Gennadius Bible from 1499, was used. The biblical books which have been handed down for centuries, some of which go back to Cyril and Method , were collected in this; the books that did not exist in Church Slavonic were translated from the Latin Vulgate . For the Ostrog Bible, the books of the Gennadius Bible translated from Latin have now been translated from the Greek Septuagint . In addition to Greek texts, the editors were u. a. Czech , Polish and, with the translation by Francysk Skaryna, also Ruthenian Bibles are available, so that the Ostrog Bible was compiled according to philological principles in today's sense .
effect
The Ostrog Bible had a very large circulation for the time. The information about this varies from 1000 to 4000 pieces. This edition allowed the Ostrog Bible to develop normative power, which could a. characterized expresses that it is a major source of the Neukirchen Slawische codifying grammar of Meletius Smotrytsky represents. It was also the basis of the Moscow Bible , published in 1663, and indirectly also the Elizabethan Bible of 1751, on which the Church Slavonic Bible edition, which is still valid today, is based. In this respect, the importance of the Ostrog Bible for the modern Church Slavonic tradition can hardly be overestimated.
literature
- Francis J. Thomson: The Slavonic translation of the Old Testament. In: Jože Krašovec (ed.): The interpretation of the Bible. The international symposium in Slovenia. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1998, ISBN 1-85075-969-3 , pp. 605-920 ( Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series 289).
- Roman K. Curkan: Slavjanskij perevod Biblii. Saint Petersburg 2001. [broken link]
Web links
- Further information (Russian) [broken link]