Russian Bible Holy Synod Version [Hardcover]

American Bible Society (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2002

Russian Bible . Holy Synod Version. - References And Maps. Black Hardcover. (7 X 9-3/4 In.)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 999 pages
• Publisher: American Bible Society (November 2002)
• Language: Russian
• ISBN-10: 5855240703
• ISBN-13: 978-5855240702
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,216,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Russian Bible WOW!!, January 25, 2011

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This review is from: Russian Bible Holy Synod Version (Hardcover)

Russian Synodal Bible (Russian: Ñèíîäàëüíûé ïåðåâîä, The Synodal Translation) is a Russian non-Church Slavonic translation of the Bible commonly used by the Russian Orthodox Church[1], Russian Baptists[2] and other Protestant, as well as Roman Catholic communities in Russia.

The translation began in 1813, after the establishment of the Russian Bible Society and by permission of czar Alexander I. The work was partly halted under a more conservative emperor Nicholas I (between 1825 and 1855), but it was again resumed and completed in the next reign, of Alexander II.

The Most Holy Synod entrusted the translation to four Orthodox theological academies, in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kazan and Kiev. The complete work was published in 1876. The final editorship was performed by the Synod and personally by Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow. The translation of the Old Testament is based on the Jewish Masoretic Text while that of the New Testament is based on the Greek printed editions of that time.[3] This decision was grounded on Filaret's 1834 note "On the need of the Russian Church for a translation of the whole Bible from the original texts to the modern Russian language". The permission to use the Masoretic Text as preserved by the Jews (rather than relying on the Septuagint and/or the Church Slavonic translations as preserved by the Christians) was granted to Filaret by the Synod in 1862. Though the linguistic norms of the Russian language have changed since the early editions, some features remained untouched. Due to its vocabulary resemblance to the Church Slavonic language, the Synodal version helped shape some distinctive Slavonic-inspired features used both in the Russian spoken language and in Russian literature up to now.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Russian Bible. NICE BLACK HARDCOVER!, September 16, 2011

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This review is from: Russian Bible Holy Synod Version (Hardcover)

This is a quiet big russian Bible! I love the BLACK hardcover, and the good size print of the letters. Got these for our visiting exchange students, they appreciated them, and took them to Russia.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poor translation, June 29, 2011

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This review is from: Russian Bible Holy Synod Version (Hardcover)

Not the book that you can read in Russian. Most of sentences sound like they were translated with the help of automatic google translator. Some of them don't even make any sense. And it is also not the Orthodox Russian Bible, but a translation of a catholic Bible. I must have mistaken it for an Orthodox one, but it doesn't say anything about that in the product description.