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The New Testament of 1524. In 1524, the exiled King Christian II of Denmark-Norway ordered the publication of the first Danish-language translation of the New Testament. It was given a full title which can be translated as "This is the New Testament in Danish directly from the Latin version," and is often referred to today as the New Testament of King Christian II.
An illuminated page from a 14th century Icelandic copy of Stjórn I. The capital letter marks the beginning of Genesis 25:20. [1]Stjórn (Icelandic: [stjou(r)tn̥]) is the name given to a collection of Old Norse translations of Old Testament historical material dating from the 14th century, which together cover Jewish history from Genesis through to II Kings.
A biblical manuscript is any handwritten copy of a portion of the text of the Bible.Biblical manuscripts vary in size from tiny scrolls containing individual verses of the Jewish scriptures (see Tefillin) to huge polyglot codices (multi-lingual books) containing both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the New Testament, as well as extracanonical works.
The oldest surviving Hebrew Bible manuscripts, the Dead Sea Scrolls, date to c. the 2nd century BCE. Some of these scrolls are presently stored at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible , including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament a copy ...
AM 227 fol. is a fourteenth century Icelandic illuminated manuscript. [2] It contains a version of Stjórn, an Old Norse biblical compilation, and is one of three independent witnesses to this work. [3] It is lavishly illustrated and is one of the most impressive manuscripts collected by Árni Magnússon. [4]
Manuscripts written in the 13th century preserved most information about the Norsemen's pre-Christian religious beliefs. [1] The Poetic Edda contain Old Norse poems about the creation and the end of the world. [1] Snorri Sturluson incorporated several myths of Odin, Thor, Týr, and other pagan gods in his Prose Edda. [2]
Paula McNutt, for instance, notes that the Old Testament narratives, Do not record "history" in the sense that history is understood in the twentieth century. ...The past, for biblical writers as well as for twentieth-century readers of the Bible, has meaning only when it is considered in light of the present, and perhaps an idealized future. [18]
Note that Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian often collectively are referred to as Old Norse (or Old Norse–Icelandic) since the languages were very close, at least until around 1400. However, Wikipedia has another category for Old Icelandic manuscripts, and all major catalogues of Old Norse manuscripts draw the distinction between Old Icelandic ...