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Message:: [QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 5144770, member: 78949"]Thanks, evelyb30, got it. As I have no knowledge in religious matters and in ancient languages, I cannot judge about translations of religious books in English. Thanks for sharing! What I know fairy well  is the Slavic history especially in  Cyrillic writing countries like Russia. Actually,  there was just one language in which all holy books were translated in Cyrilic at the end of  7th century  - the old Bulgarian language which gained popularity as Church Slavonic. Imperial Russia, selling  itslef as "The Third Rome", could not afford to admit that they were not the driving force/creators of these translations but were given the holy books  by another country,  small and insignificant like Bulgaria. Which is merely the truth, back then Bulgaria was not either of it. This is just to explain why the names are the same in Bulgarian and in Russian - it is not a different translation, it is one and the same. I suppose that the names of the Old Testament books were properly translated in Bulgarian as the translators were very knowledgeable, being educated in Constantinopole's best academy at the time and thus  being savy both in religious matters and in ancient languages.[/QUOTE]