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001 2012032891
003 DLC
005 20130801075428.0
008 120814s2013 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2012032891
020 $a9781107032118 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aBS460.R7$bB37 2013
082 00 $a220.5/9171$223
084 $aLIT004130$2bisacsh
100 1 $aBatalden, Stephen K.
245 10 $aRussian Bible wars :$bmodern scriptural translation and cultural authority /$cby Stephen K. Batalden.
264 1 $aCambridge :$bCambridge University Press,$c2013.
300 $aviii, 389 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Although biblical texts were known in Church Slavonic as early as the ninth century, translation of the Bible into Russian came about only in the nineteenth century. Modern scriptural translation generated major religious and cultural conflict within the Russian Orthodox church. The resulting divisions left church authority particularly vulnerable to political pressures exerted upon it in the twentieth century. Russian Bible Wars illuminates the fundamental issues of authority that have divided modern Russian religious culture. Set within the theoretical debate over secularization, the volume clarifies why the Russian Bible was issued relatively late and amidst great controversy. Stephen Batalden's study traces the development of biblical translation into Russian and of the 'Bible wars' that then occurred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Russia. The annotated bibliography of the Russian Bible identifies the different editions and their publication history"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-383) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 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.
630 00 $aBible$xTranslating$zRussia$xHistory.
630 00 $aBible$xTranslating$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aRussian language.
651 0 $aRussia$xChurch history$y1801-1917.
651 0 $aRussia$xChurch history$y20th century.
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xChurch history.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2012032891-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2012032891-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1215/2012032891-t.html