The
Journal of Byelorussian Studies
Vol. VI, No.
1
CHRISTIAN, JEWISH AND MUSLIM TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE
AND KORAN IN BYELORUSSIA: 16TH-19TH
CENTURIES
by P. Wexler
The
period of the 16th and 17th centuries was an exiting
time in the cultural history of the Byelorussian lands. The early 16th
century saw the publication in Prague of Francis Skarynaís
translation
of the Bible into a Byelorussian recension of Church Slavonic and the
translation
of the Old Testament into an even more colloquial <Eastern
Slavonic>
by a Jewish translator at the close of the 15th century or early 16th
century.
The small Tatar community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania also
translated
Muslim liturgical works into a form of colloquial Byelorussian...
...A
comparison of the three liturgical translations By
Christian, Jewish and Muslim speakers of Byelorussian would undoubtedly
contribute much to our understanding of colloquial Byelorussian and
Byelorussian
communal dialectology in the Byelorussian lands in the 16th-17th
centuries...
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