Bible translations into Slavic languages

Other languages include: An effort to produce a version in the vernacular was made by Francysk Skaryna (d. after 1535), a native of Polatsk in Belarus.

[1] He published at Prague, 1517–19, twenty-two Old Testament books in Old Belarusian language, in the preparation of which he was greatly influenced by the Bohemian Bible of 1506.

In 1835 the British and Foreign Bible Society contracted a Bulgarian monk, Neofit Rilski, who started on a new translation which, in later editions, remains the standard version today.

The New Testament was adapted from Croatian by a group led by Ruben Knežević, and published by Zenica Home Press in 2002.

[4] A group called Bosanska Biblija created a Bible translation for a Muslim Bosniak audience, which was published by Grafotisak Grude in 2013.

[5] Official founder of the Bosnian Bible Translation Project is Stuart Moses Graham, the executive director of the Friends of Bosnia and Croatia in Northern Ireland, a trust based in Belfast (formerly a charity called Church Growth Croatia and Bosnia),[6] and the initiator, editor and distributor of the first Bosnian Bible is Dr Redžo Trako, a Bosniak scholar of Islamic religious background with a PhD from the Queen's University Belfast.

[10] The first translation of a sentence from the Bible (Mt 25:34) to Slovene appeared in the Freising Manuscripts, dating to the 10th or the 11th century.

The first translation from the original languages (Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek) was the Kralice Bible from 1579, the definitive edition published in 1613.