TY  - BOOK
AU  - Batalden,Stephen K.
TI  - Russian Bible wars: modern scriptural translation and cultural authority 
SN  - 9781107348318
AV  - BS460.R7 B37 2013eb
U1  - 220.5/9171 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Translating
KW  - Russia
KW  - History
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Traduction
KW  - Russie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - URSS
KW  - fast
KW  - Bibel
KW  - gnd
KW  - Bibeln
KW  - sao
KW  - Russian language
KW  - Russe (Langue)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIBLES
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Biblical Reference
KW  - Handbooks
KW  - Übersetzung
KW  - Russisch
KW  - Bibelöversättning
KW  - Ryska språket
KW  - religiösa aspekter
KW  - Church history
KW  - 1801-1917
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Histoire religieuse
KW  - Russland
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Origins of the Russian Bible Society; Freemasonry and its relationship to the Bible Society movement; Ignaz Fessler; Aleksandr Fedorovich Labzin; The new piety and Russian Orthodox churchmen; Alexander I and imperial patronage of the Bible Society; The coming of the Bible Society; Chapter 2 Technology and textology; The introduction of stereotype printing in Russia; Affiliated branch chapters and auxiliaries of the Bible Society: marketing the word; Translating the Bible; Closure of the Russian Bible Society; The Gossner affair
N2  - "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"--
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