ЛІНГВІСТИЧНІ СХОЛІЇ ДО УКРАЇНСЬКОМОВНОГО ПЕРЕКЛАДУ 4–5 ПСАЛМІВ

Abstract

The Psalter is the most famous collection of religious poetry in the world, which is actively used during religious services by representatives of all Abrahamic religions. In view of this, the constant work of theologians and philologists on the interpretation and translation of psalms into different languages and for different intended audiences is going on. Despite the emergence of isolated attempts to translate the Psalter into the modern Ukrainian literary language, the study of biblical poetry from the point of view of the relationship between the Hebrew and Greek texts, as well as their adequate reproduction in the Ukrainian language, taking into account the active centuries-long use of the Slavic translation, remains relevant for the domestic scientific and theological community. Pointing out a practical way to solve this problem, the author proposes his own linguistic scholia to the Masoretic, Greek and Slavic texts of the 4-5 Psalms and also offers a version of their translation. The original texts from Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia and Septuaginta were used for the work, as well as the commonly used text of the Psalter in the Church Slavonic language. As for Ukrainian translators, the researcher focuses on the liturgical Psalter in the Kyiv translation of 1920, the text of which was edited in 1947 by professors of the Ukrainian Theological Academy in Munich, and the Book of Psalms from the translation department of the Ukrainian Bible Society in 2016: this text claims to be academic and is the latest linguistic word on this topic in Ukrainian biblical studies. The material presented in the article will be useful not only for the Ukrainian specialists in the biblical studies but also for philologists-translators, literary scholars – all those who are interested in hermeneutics and exegesis of the biblical texts.