The Five Biblical Scrolls in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Translation into Belorussian (Vilnius Codex 262)

by Moshe Altbauer

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Extent: 424 pages

Publisher: Heinrich-Barth Institute

Subjects: Jewish Studies, Slavic Studies

Series: Publications in the Humanities

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 1992)

ISBN: 9789652081001

Price: $55.00

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Vilnius Codex 262 contains a translation from Hebrew into Belorussian of several biblical books, composed just when Belorussian was emerging in its modern form. The manuscript of the five scrolls is displayed here in a complete photographic reproduction, accompanied by a transcription on facing pages. The introductory chapters and the critical commentary highlight the text’s distinctiveness from other, non-Jewish translations of the Bible into Slavic, and its affinity with translations into languages of the Jewish Diaspora. The last portion of the work is a complete Belorussian-Hebrew Concordance, compiled by Dr. M. Taube.

  • By (author) Moshe Altbauer