Old Church Slavonic
Early translation · slav · translation 9th century
The translation the brothers Cyril and Methodius made for the Slavs of Moravia in the 860s, from Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine church, inventing an alphabet to write it. It became the Bible of the Slavic Orthodox churches.
Contents
The whole New Testament; the oldest manuscripts are Gospels from the 10th and 11th centuries.
Cited For
- Matthew 6:13 “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen”
- John 7:53–8:11 “And every man went unto his own house …”
- 1 Timothy 3:16 “God”
Early translations show the Greek their translators had, sometimes older than any Greek manuscript of the passage that survives. Their abbreviations name the language: it (Old Latin), vg (Vulgate), syr (Syriac), cop (Coptic), arm (Armenian), goth (Gothic), slav (Slavonic).
