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The '''Ostrog Bible''' (Ukranian Острозька Біблія; Russian Острожская Библия) was one of the earliest East Slavic translations of the [[Bible]] and the first complete printed edition of the Bible in [[Old Church Slavonic]], published in Ostrog, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, by the Muscovy printer [[Ivan Fyodorov (printer)|Ivan Fyodorov]] in 1581 with the assistance of the Ukrainian Prince Konstantin Ostrogski.
The ''Ostrog Bible'' is unique among Church Slavonic Bibles in that the [[Old Testament]] was translated not from the Hebrew [[Masoretic text]], but from the Greek [[Septuagint]]. This translation, comprising seventy-six books of the Old and [[New Testament]]s, was based on the ''[[Gennadius Bible]]'' and a manuscript of the ''[[Codex Alexandrinus]]''. Some parts were based on Francysk Skaryna's translations.
The Ostrog Bibles were printed on two dates: [[July 12]], 1580, and [[August 12]], 1581. The second version differs from the 1580 original in composition, ornamentation, and correction of misprints. In the printing of the Bible delays occurred, as it was necessary to remove mistakes, to search for correct textual resolutions of questions, and to produce a correct translation. The editing of the Bible detained printing. In the meantime, Fyodorov and his company printed other biblical books. The first were those which did not require correcting: the Psalter and the New Testament.
 
[[Image:Ostrog Bible01TitlePredOgl.djvu|thumb|left|The ''Ostrog Bible'' on Commons]]
The ''Ostrog Bible'' is a monumental publication of 1,256 pages, lavishly decorated with headpieces and initials, which were prepared especially for it. From the typographical point of view, the ''Ostrog Bible'' is irreproachable. This is the first Bible printed in [[Church Slavonic|Cyrillic]] type. It served as the original and model for further Russian publications of the Bible.
==References==
1663 Reprint of The Ostrog Bible [(revised by Arsenios the Greek, Zakariya Afanas'ev and two others, under the direction of the [[Nikon of Moscow|Patriarch Nikon]] ) [http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/?lang=en&coll=collections:a0037&q=("ostrog+bible")&pos=5&src=SE Reprint]
==Source==
* [http://www.krotov.info/library/bible/comm2/ostrog.htm Article at krotov.info]
* [http://www.zerkalo-nedeli.com/nn/show/468/43652/ About the modern publiction of the Ostrog Bible]
* [http://www.holytrinitymission.org/books/english/way_russian_theology_florovsky.htm#_Toc26329300 The Ostrog Circle and Bible] from ''Ways of Russian Theology'', by Fr. [[George Georges Florovsky]]
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