A Bible That Built a Language: The Ostrog Codex of 1581 and Its Unexpected Resonance in 21st-Century American Academia
First printed in 1581 under the patronage of Prince Kostiantyn Ostrozky in the town of Ostroh—the very settlement from which this publication takes its name—the Ostrog Bible was far more than a religious document. It was a deliberate act of cultural and linguistic standardization at a moment when the Slavic world faced mounting pressure from both Catholic Counter-Reformation forces and Ottoman expansion. Today, a new generation of American scholars equipped with digital tools is returning to thi