The Oxford University Press has published a study by Pál Ács, Institute Senior, Reserch Professor at the Institute of History on early Hungarian Bible translations, entitled Translating the Hungarian Protestant Bible.
The essay appears in the prestigious Oxford Handbook series, in a comprehensive volume edited by Jennifer Powell McNutt and Herman Selderhuis: The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation.
The study traces the complex and often difficult journey by which the Hungarian language came to convey the text of the Bible with the sophistication and precision it requires. The Reformed Bible translation by Gáspár Károlyi (Vizsoly, 1590), which remains a standard reference today, is presented not as the starting point of this process, but as its culmination.
The research was supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), under project number K-129236: Christianity and Islam: Crusade and Coexistence at the Crossroads in the 16th–17th Centuries (project leader: Antal Molnár).
