Translation Challenge

[Denis Akhapkine]

Как бы то ни было, византийское иконоборчество прежде всего было
политической борьбой.

ML> Translation challenge:

ML> How would you render in Russian this sentence from
ML> Jaroslav Pelikan's Imago Dei?

ML> "Whatever else it may have been, the Byzantine conflict
ML> over icons was a political struggle." (Princeton UP, 1990.
ML> p.7)

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Денис Ахапкин / Denis Akhapkine
denis at da2938.spb.edu
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