Contextuality of the Bible in Lithuania until the End of the Eighteenth Century

Download or read book Contextuality of the Bible in Lithuania until the End of the Eighteenth Century written by Kristina Rutkovska and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2024-12-09 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collective book by Lithuanian researchers presents research conducted in Lithuania on the historical and socio-cultural contexts of the Bible and the ways in which it functioned in Lithuanian writing from its beginning to the 18th century. The ways of religious communication, the dissemination of religious and social ideas in the works of theologians, the functioning of biblical texts and the ways of their transmission are shown. The articles review the problems of translating the Bible into Lithuanian and Slavic languages, consider the influence of other languages and cultures on the formation of the Lithuanian language in its early development, and address issues of editing and publishing religious writings.