Bible translations into Serbian
There are many translations of the Bible into Serbian and Serbo-Croatian language.History
The first translation in Serbian is the famous Miroslav Gospel from 1186. It is currently in the National Museum of Serbia in Belgrade and is valued as the national treasure.
The first printed Bible was of Atanasije Stojković but was not written in the vernacular Serbian, but was a mixture of Church Slavonic and Serbian. Stojković later translated the New Testament to Serbian in 1830. A more popular translation of the New Testament by Vuk Karadžić was published in Vienna in 1847, and was combined with the translation of the Old Testament of 1867 by Đuro Daničić in Belgrade, printed together in 1868.
Other subsequent translations are the following:
- Lujo Bakotić, 1933, complete Bible
- Dimitrije Stefanović, 1934, New Testament
- Emilijan Čarnić, 1973, New Testament; Psalms, 1985.
- Serbian Orthodox Synod, 1984, New Testament
- Aleksandar Birviš, Matthew through John, 1987; Psalms, 1990; Genesis, 2003; Hebrews, 2003; Lamentations, 2005; Isaiah, 2006
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