Bible translations into Armenian

From Textus Receptus

Illustrated Armenian Bible from 1256

Excerpt from the first printed Armenian Bible, Amsterdam, 1666.

The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora. Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Turkey and Iran (Middle East). ^[2]

The Armenian Bible is due to Saint Mesrob's early-5th-century translation. The first monument of Armenian literature is the version of the Holy Scriptures. Isaac, says Moses of Chorene, made a translation of the Bible from the Syriac text about 411. This work must have been considered imperfect, for soon afterwards John of Egheghiatz and Joseph of Baghin were sent to Edessa to translate the Scriptures. They journeyed as far as Constantinople, and brought back with them authentic copies of the Greek text. With the help of other copies obtained from Alexandria the Bible was translated again from the Greek according to the text of the Septuagint and Origen's Hexapla. This version, now in use in the Armenian Church, was completed around the year 434.

The first sentence in Armenian written down by St. Mesrop after he invented the letters is said to be the opening line of Solomon's Book of Proverbs:

Ճանաչել զիմաստութիւն եւ զխրատ, իմանալ զբանս հանճարոյ:

Čanačʿel zimastutʿiwn ew zxrat, imanal zbans hančaroy.

"To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding." (Proverbs 1:2).

Oskan Bible

The first complete Bible into Armenian was the Oskan Bible of 1666, named after printer Oskan Erewants‘i ("Oskan of Yerevan", 1614‒74). Oskan translated and edited the text from a single manuscript which had been copied in 1295 for King Het’um II of the Cilician Kingdom of Armenia^[1] The bible is 1,462 double pages in length with also 159 illustrations by the Dutch artist Christoffel van Sichem (1581‒1658). It includes the prefaces and introductions to the books by Jerome. At the end of the work is an extensive and detailed colophon addressed to the readers in which he explains that he edited the Bible to bring the verses, chapters, and numberings in accord with the Western translations.

Modern Armenian

The Museum of the bible says:

Eastern Armenian Bible reproduced by photography from the 1896 edition of the Eastern Armenian Bible. The Armenian Bible was first translated into the two modern dialects of Armenian—Eastern and Western —in the mid-1800s. Classical Armenian (Grapar) was no longer generally understood by the mid-1800s, and translations were needed for the two great literary dialects of modern Armenian. The first translation of the New Testament into Eastern Armenian was made in 1835. A full translation of the entire Armenian Bible was finished by 1896.^[3]

References

1. Armenian bibles
2. This manuscript is in the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, or Matenadaran, in Yerevan.
3. Eastern Armenian Bible (Ararat)

External links

interwiki hy:Աստվածաշունչ - Armenian Wikipedia article Bible
Online Eastern Armenian Bible
Eastern Armenian Bible for iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch (iTunes link)
History of Armenian Bible
NET Bible info
Armenian Bible Society

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