Ziryen Bible History (3)

**List: Ziryen Ministry the Bible ( the Bible ) Ziryen... ZIRIAN, OR SIRENIAN. "THERE is some difference of opinion concerning the precise geographical limits of the Zirian dialect. It has been said to prevail in the governments of Perm, Tobolsk, and Archangel; but it is undoubtedly the predominant dialect of the district of Oustioug-veliki, in Vologda.   The Zirinians were converted to Christianity in the fourteenth century, by the preaching of St. Etienne; and there are some reasons for supposing that the Scriptures and the church books were translated into the Zirian dialect about that period; but not a single vestige of this translation at present remains.    The only portion of the Scriptures now possessed by the Zirians, in their own dialect, consists of the Gospel of St. Matthew; 1400 copies of which were printed for them by the Russian Bible Society in 1823.   The translator’s name was Scherzen."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only: St. Etienne?] THE ZIRIAN OR SIRENIAN VERSION, from the Edition printed at St. Petersburgh.--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: {Slavonic} Character   "1823" Matthew 5:1-8 unknown.]

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