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IBT recently held a training seminar in Uzbekistan on translating the Old Testament book of Proverbs into the Turkic languages. Here is what Balkar translator Marziyat reported about this seminar: “Once I heard a lecture on love by Fr. Alexander Menn, who said that when Christ came, it wasn’t as if the world was completely unprepared – the history of humanity given in the Old Testament had actually prepared people for His coming. The Wisdom literature, and Solomon’s Proverbs in particular, were part of this preparation for the Jewish people. But what about for the rest of humankind? The seminar on Proverbs offered us a vivid answer to this question...
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A workshop on "Discourse in the book of Proverbs in Turkic languages," organized by the Institute for Bible Translation, was held in Tashkent on April 21-24. Translators and exegetical advisers from the Altai, Balkar, Siberian Tatar, Khorazm and Kyrgyz Bible translation projects participated.
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The Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) continues to publish the books of the Old Testament in the Balkar language. The Balkars are a Turkic-speaking people that lives primarily in the central part of the North Caucasus, with a population of about 113,000 people, according to the 2010 census.
The book of the prophet Jonah is the second Old Testament edition in the Balkar language published by IBT. In 2020, IBT published a Balkar edition of Ruth, Esther and Daniel. Jonah was printed as a large hardcover edition with colorful illustrations by I. Pavlishina that had previously been used in the publications of Jonah in various other languages and were well accepted by readers of different ethnicities...
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IBT is continuing to publish online editions of our new translations even as we wait for printing-houses to open up once the covid-19 quarantine ends. The latest of these editions is the Balkar version of the Old Testament books of Ruth, Esther and Daniel.
The Turkic-language Balkars constitute about 10% of the population of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus area of the Russian Federation. Together with the closely related Karachay people, there are about 300,000 speakers of this language in Russia.
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