The rector of the Don Theological Seminary gave a plenary report at the Moscow Theological Academytranslated

On October 12, 2026, a plenary meeting dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Synodal Translation of the Bible was held at the Moscow Theological Academy as part of the annual All-Russian Intercession Scientific Conference. The meeting was held on the topic “The Synodal translation: theological and church-historical significance in the context of the history of Russian biblical studies.”

The plenary report “The Psalter between Jerusalem and Alexandria: Synodal translation in the light of two biblical traditions” was delivered by the rector of the Don Theological Seminary, Doctor of Theology, Archpriest Timofey Fetisov.

The report examined the discrepancies between the Russian Synodal and Church Slavonic translations of the Psalter, due to their origin from various sources: the Masoretic text and the Greek translation of the Seventy (Septuagint). Archpriest Timothy substantiated the position that the translation of a sacred text is its interpretation, and this applies equally to the Septuagint and the Masoretic text. Based on selected verses of the Psalter, the speaker analyzed the types of discrepancies, some of which arose due to different readings of the unvoiced Jewish text, while others were the result of conscious theological rethinking...