Elizabeth Bible

Title page of the Elizabeth Bible (1751)

The Elizabeth Bible (Russian: Елизаветинская Библия, romanizedYelizavetinskaya Bibliya) is the authorized version of the Bible used by the Russian Orthodox Church.[1] The Elizabeth Bible was the third complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic, published in Russia in 1751 under and with the assistance of the Elizabeth of Russia, the previous ones being the Ostrog Bible of 1581 and the Moscow Bible of 1663.

  1. ^ Batalden, Stephen K. (14 March 2013). Russian Bible Wars: Modern Scriptural Translation and Cultural Authority. Cambridge University Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-107-03211-8.

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