Brest Bible
The Brest Bible (
Polish full original title: Biblia święta, Tho iest, Księgi Starego y Nowego Zakonu, właśnie z Żydowskiego, Greckiego, y Łacińskiego, nowo na Polski ięzyk, z pilnością y wiernie wyłożone.
Overview
It is sometimes also named after the
The Brest Bible is one of the earliest
The text of the translation, which stresses contextual and phraseological, rather than word-for-word translating, is highly reliable in respect to the originals and represents some of the finest Polish usage of the period. Among the leading
Mikołaj Radziwiłł's son, Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł, converted to Catholicism and as a Counter-Reformation zealot arranged for a public burning of all the specimens of the Bible of Brest that he could locate and buy (some have survived[5]) at Vilnius' central market.[3][4]
References
- ^ ISBN 83-7384-018-4.
- ^ a b c Polskie przekłady Biblii (Polish translations of the Bible) from Biblia, biblijna.strona.pl web site
- ^ a b c d Biblia Brzeska (Brest Bible) from Biblia – serwis biblistyczny, www.biblia.wortale.net web site
- ^ a b Biblia Brzeska, zwana również Radziwiłłowską lub Pińczowską (Brest Bible, known also as Radziwiłł or Pińczów Bible) from www.polska.pl web site
- ^ Biblia święta... Archived 14 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, 1653 in PBI
External links
- (in Polish) "Biblia święta..." – digitised version by Polska Biblioteka Internetowa (Old and New Testament),
- (in Polish) "Biblia święta...", New Testament, Transcribed into HTML format,
- (in Polish) "Biblia święta...", Old Testament – digitised by Wielkopolska Biblioteka Cyfrowa.
- (in Polish) "Biblia święta...", Old Testament – html in the original font, pdf in the original and recent fonts.
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