Slavic Scriptures
Slavic Scriptures: the formation of the Church Slavonic version of the Holy Bible Henry R. Cooper, Jr
Publisher: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; c2003.
ISBN: 0838639720
DDC: 220.591817
LCC: BS111
Edition: (alk. paper)
Summary:
"Literally thousands of items have been written about Cyril,
Methodius, and the Church Slavonic Bible. And the Bible itself exists
in fragments from perhaps as far back as 1000 C.E. In approaching the
mass of scholarly, semischolarly, pseudo-scholarly, and popularizing
material that has accumlated over the past two hundred years, Slavic
Scriptures attempts to analyze and synthesize the most cogent
arguments of the best scholars, from the earliest studies of the
Czech proto-Slavicist and biblicist Joseph Dobrovsky to the
contemporary works of Francis Thomson (Antwerp) and A. A. Alekseev
(St. Petersburg). As for the manuscript evidence, it has been
considered directly, in published editions, but in larger part
indirectly, through the studies of those who have had firsthand
access to basic material (most notoriously the first full manuscript
of the Church Slavonic Bible from 1499, but published only in the
1990s and still only in part). Every conscious effort has been made
to avoid confessional bias in interpreting the historical and textual
records, but it must be admitted that some of the best analyses
consulted for Slavic Scriptures rest on strongly held beliefs that
chafe at scholarly dispassion. By and large the methodology of the
volume is inductive, in order to minimize the role of preconceived
theses, but with the abiding understanding that the uncontestable
facts are few and often far between." "Slavic Scriptures offers as
its conclusions that neither Cyril nor Methodius (to whom it is
traditionally ascribed) managed to complete a full translation of the
Bible in their lifetimes. The bulk of the credit for creating the
surviving version of the Church Slavonic Bible belongs to South
Slavic translators of the ninth-fourteenth centuries. Its finishing
touches were applied by East Slavs in rounding out the full canon,
printing, revising, and authorizing the text between the late
fifteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. The Church Slavonic Version
serves the Orthodox of the twenty-first century both as a touchstone
of their millennial religious culture and a challenge to their
further biblical development."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-290) and index.
1.Before Cyril and Methodius --2.Cyril --3.Methodius --4.Ohrid and
Preslav --5.The Second Bulgarian Empire --6.Kievan Rus' and Muscovy
--7.Russia.
Language: eng
Physical Description: 306 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition Info: (alk. paper)
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