Belarusan New Testament and Proverbs (BELJFC)

Overview

This edition, published by the Bible Society of the Republic of Belarus, contains a Belarusian Bible translation associated with the John the Forerunner Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith of Minsk City. The New Testament and Book of Proverbs were prepared by evangelical pastor Antoni Bokun and are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license. The copyright date of 2016 marks the beginning of a translation project led by Bokun, who began translating the Bible into Belarusian directly from the original Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic texts in 2011. [1] Bokun's complete Bible was finalized in 2023 after twelve years of work, making it the third full Bible translation in the Belarusian language. [1] Despite the title suggesting only the New Testament and Proverbs, this digital edition contains all 66 books. The YouVersion listing also hosts a separate edition of the Bible translated by Vasil Syargeevich Syomukha, a Belarusian slavist who completed a translation from the Old Church Slavonic in 2000 with the assistance of Metropolitan Nickolaj of the Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. [2] The history of Belarusian Bible translation extends back to Francysk Skaryna, who printed the first Belarusian-language biblical text (the Psalter) in Prague in 1517. [2]

Language and People

Belarusian (ISO 639-3: bel) is spoken by approximately 2,637,920 people. [Glottolog: bela1254]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Bible Society of the Republic of Belarus. Translation type: New.

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