Kralice Bible

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• Czech literature
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    In Czech literature: Origins and development through the 17th century

    …into Czech, known as the Kralice Bible (1579–93). The language of this version became the model for classical Czech.

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Czech biblical translations

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  In biblical literature: Slavic versions

  The Kralice Bible, regarded as the finest extant specimen of classical Czech, became the standard Protestant version.

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• Bohemian religious history
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    In Czechoslovak history: The Counter-Reformation and Protestant rebellion

    …to be known as the Kralice Bible). Thus, the Catholics sought to create a breach between the Unitas Fratrum and the Protestant majority, who adhered to the Bohemian Confession.

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• Unitas Fratrum
  • In Unitas Fratrum

    …translation of the Bible (the Kralice, or Kralitz, Bible), the outstanding quality of which made it a landmark in Czech literature. Their Confessio Bohemica, reflecting Lutheran and Calvinist influences, effected a union with Lutheran Hussites in 1575 that received Holy Roman imperial sanction in 1609. By that time the Unitas…

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