Abstract: Abstract Until the first decade of the 5th century, the Bible was preached in Armenia using the existing Syriac and Greek texts. Historians of the 5th century comment on the difficulties Armenians faced in preaching the gospel and teaching Christianity in Armenia using the non‐Armenian texts of the Bible. Hearing the Bible alone was not sufficient to achieve the desired spiritual impact on the souls of the newly converted Armenians: the need for written material was urgent. This inspired an Armenian monk named Mashtots to invent the Armenian alphabet around 405. Following the invention of the Armenian alphabet, Mashtots and his disciples immediately embarked on the monumental task of translating the Bible into Armenian.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-11-25
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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