Protestant British and Foreign Bible Society Funder Rilski, Neofit, 1793-1881 Translator text text xx monographic Smyrna A. Damianova 1850 bul

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1 online resource. The noted educational reformer, grammarian, and priest Neofit Rilski (1793--1881) was the first to translate the New Testament into modern Bulgarian. Rilski's translation was critical to religious education, as most Bulgarians could not understand the existing translations of the Bible into Church Slavic. Financed by the Protestant British and Foreign Bible Society and sanctioned by the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Ilarion, Metropolitan of Tŭrnovo, the translation was a milestone in the Bulgarian National Revival and in the efforts of Bulgarians to achieve religious autonomy from the Greeks. Shown here is the second edition from 1850, which is reprinted from the first edition of 1840. Title devised, in English, by Library staff. "The book is printed in Church Slavic script."--Note extracted from World Digital Library. Original resource extent: 516 pages ; 20 centimeters. Original resource at: Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Content in Bulgarian. Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions. 1850 Bible Bible. New Testament Bulgarian Orthodox Church Bulgaria 225 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.4127 2021666564 DLC 210507 20250607105710.1 22053667 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng