The Reformation · 1581
The Ostrog Bible
Ivan Fyodorov and the Ostrog circle
What it is
The first complete printed Church Slavonic Bible, prepared in Volhynia from Greek and Slavonic manuscripts under the patronage of a Ruthenian prince.
Why it lasted
The basis of every subsequent Slavonic Bible, and a monument of Orthodox scholarship produced in response to Protestant and Catholic pressure.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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