히브리 관용어 표현에 대한 번역 기술 : '마음 위에 말하다'(dbr 'l-lb)를 중심으로

Abstract

Among a lot of problems of the Bible translation, it is much more difficult to render the idiomatic expressions found in the Hebrew Bible into the modern language. An idiom signifies a sequence of words that form an exocentric meaning. The difficulties of the translation come from the gap between the time when the expressions were used and that of the readers and from the choice of a good corresponding idiom in the target language.<BR> When we limit the case of the idiomatic expression ‘to speak on the heart’ (??? ?????) in the Korean Bible translations, it is very rare to find its literal renderings. Most Korean versions translate it freely, or add a corresponding word to a free translated text in order to reveal the biblical meaning in the context that this expression belongs to. These translation tendencies are already found in the Septuagint and the Targum. The literal rendering makes the modern readers difficult to understand the message of the original text well. On the other hand, the readers may lose the good taste found in the original structures of the Hebrew Bible. The Bible translators usually undergo these problems in rendering the idiomatic expressions of the Bible.<BR> In that the translation does not simply render one language into another but leads the biblical readers to the message of the Living God, we can be satisfied only when the original structures of the original text are preserved well in the target text as well as its original meaning is conveyed rightly.