Abstract:

The Bible Society in Turkey which is the publisher of many books for Christians, especially of the Bible in almost all languages and alphabets used in the Ottoman Empire, is an important actor of religious publishing in these lands with its 200 years of existence. Serving the Christians from all denominations and language groups of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey; the Bible Society is one of the oldest publishers of these lands. This study aims to offer a chronological view for the earliest activities of the predecessor organizations of the Bible Society in Turkey, the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) and the American Bible Society (ABS), which were carried out within the current geographical borders of the Republic of Turkey.

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