『셩경젼셔』(1911)의 번역대본 가능성 -+ 출애굽기 4:13을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Most Korean Bibles have translated Exodus 4:13 as “Moses said, Oh Lord, Please send a capable man.” since the first publication of The Korean Bible (『셩경젼셔』) in 1911 and The Korean Revised Version (『셩경개역』) in 1938. We notice that these translations are certainly not based on MT, which is the main basis for the translation of the Old Testament. This study identifies the translation issue of the verse, and tries to find out the plausible source texts for the Korean Bibles, especially for The Korean Bible.<BR> In the case of Exodus 4:13, all English Bibles were based on MT without exceptions. Our study indicates that our Korean Bibles seem to be translated according to the LXX instead of MT. According to MT, Exodus 4:13 would be ‘Please send someone whom you want to send.’ Moses simply asks that he does not want to lead the Exodus, and that God should send somebody else other than himself.<BR> Furthermore, our Korean translation of Exodus 4:13 seems to be derived from the Japanese Bible (Meiji Version, 1877). This study shows that the translation committee members seem to use neither MT nor LXX, and that they certainly used English, Chinese, and the Japanese Bibles. Even though all the Chinese and English Bibles seem to translate Exodus 4:13 according to MT, whereas The Korean Bible translated it in a similar way to LXX and the Japanese Bible. This shows that among the source texts for The Korean Bible Japanese Bible could have played a certain role as far as the Exodus 4:13 is concerned. Therefore, Japanese Bible would be one of the possible candidates for the source text for The Korean Bible. In the future, further studies would be necessary to secure this plausible suggestion for the source texts for the translation of the Korean Bible. Specifically Dutch Bible Statenvertaling (1637) and Spanish Bible Sagradas Escrituras (1569) need to be studied to search for more possible source texts.