The Journal of Byelorussian Studies

Vol. II, No. 4

STUDIES IN THE BYELORUSSIAN TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE
by Moshe Altbauer

The Byelorussian translation from the Hebrew of nine books of the Bible, dating from the late 15th or early 16th century, preserved in manuscript Codex 262...offers much interesting material for the history of Byelorussian lexocology, and of East Slavonic lexicology in general. It is the purpose of the present article to provide a few examples of this form in a comparative context...

... it is to be hoped that the concordance of these
texts, which is in the course of preparation by the present writer, as an appendix to the Codex 262 which is to be published in the near future by the Israeli Academy of Sciences, will contribute to the extension of our knowledge of the vocabulary of Byelorussian...in the 15-16th centuries.
 
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