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2013.
de Regt, Lénart J.
2016.
Canon and Biblical Text in the Slavonic Tradition in Russia.
The Bible Translator,
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Print publication year:
2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139424592
Russian Bible Wars
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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 i