The Bible in Russia

[Jules Levin]

At 12:16 PM 3/24/2006, you wrote:

>Dear Colleagues,
>I'm surprised that these questions by Peter Scotto and Alexander 
>Kulik have been ignored.  I too am interested in the history of the 
>Bible in Russia (and earlier, in Rus').  Checking in James 
>Billington's _The Icon and the Axe_ (Knopf 1978), I found some 
>scattered information, but there must be something more recent, 
>comprehensive, and useful.  It is known that the Russian Bible 
>Society did exert considerable (and controversial) political 
>influence in the 19th century, but that a full Russian (as opposed 
>to Church Slavonic) Bible did not come into existence until 1876.
>Daniel Rancour-Laferriere

I also am astonished at what would seem to have been popular 
unfamiliarity with the Biblical text.  But how to explain the rise of
various Pentacostal movements?  The Molokans, whom I have studied 
(but unfortunately published only one article about)arose in the 17th 
C., were under the direct influence of Revelations, and certainly 
were familiar with other books of the O and N Testaments.
Jules Levin

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