The Septuagint – an ancient translation with an impact spanning over two millennia

Aleksander Gomola

doi:10.35765/pk.2024.4502.06

Aleksander Gomola Uniwersytet Jagielloński https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3929-2210

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2024.4502.06

Słowa kluczowe: Septuaginta, Zuzanna i starcy, Smok Wawelski, muzyka reggae

Abstrakt

Artykuł omawia wybrane aspekty kulturotwórczej roli Septuaginty na przestrzeni wieków. Po krótkiej charakterystyce tego greckiego tłumaczenia Biblii hebrajskiej i prezentacji jego genezy (zarówno legendarnej jak i faktycznej) przedstawiona została jej rola jako tekstu fundacyjnego dla chrześcijaństwa oraz niektóre ślady jej wpływu widoczne w kulturze europejskiej po dzień dzisiejszy. W konkluzji stwierdzono że Septuaginta to „największy przekład wszechczasów”, który odcisnął trwałe piętno na zachodniej cywilizacji

Biogram autora

Aleksander Gomola, Uniwersytet Jagielloński

PhD. His scientific interests include religious (Christian) language and translation in cognitive linguistic perspective. He is Associate Professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He has actively participated in several international projects focusing on translation and Western cultural heritage, such as „Translating Cultures” (Queens University, Dublin, 2014–2015) or “Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change” at the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washington DC (2014–2016). He is the author of the monograph Conceptual Blending in Early Christian Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Pastoral Metaphors in Patristic Literature (De Gruyter, 2018), as well as numerous articles with most recent one Analogy in Cognitive Semantics in Handbook of Cognitive Semantics, ed. T. Fuyin Li, Brill 2023.

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