St. Theophan the Recluse on the translation of the Holy Scripture into Russian

Abstract

The article analyses opinions of the famous spiritual writer and theologian of the 19th century, St. Theophan the Recluse (1815-1894), on the new translation of the Holy Bible (1875) from Masoretic texts into Russian. His point of view reflected in the articles of such periodicals as “Dushepoleznoe chtenie”, “Domashnyaya beseda”, “Tserkovny vestnik” is a significant chapter in the history of the Russian Bible Studies.

Keywords

• the Holy Scripture
• Septuagint
• Masoretic text
• St. Theophan the Recluse
• Theophan Zatvornik
• Russian Bible studies