The structure of the concept of Moses in the Book of Genesis

Abstract

In modern society, the image of the prophet, in particular Moses, evokes in the minds of the Ukrainian people respect, esteem and the desire to find an ideological leader. Now the interpretation of the linguistic image of Moses in the Bible remains unanalyzed, which determines the relevance of our study. The aim of our work is to study the specifics of interpretation and modeling of the speech image of Moses in Ukrainian literature. The scientific novelty of the obtained results and conclusions is that the work defines a range of means of embodiment of the image of Moses in the text of the Bible. Methods. The analysis of the linguistic material is based on the principles of an integrated philological approach using the linguo-cognitive method of analyzing the phenomenon under study, in particular: the method of conceptual analysis (for modeling the internal structure of the concept of Moses), the method of contextual analysis (for highlighting the textual embodiment of the concept of Moses). In the article general scientific methods and techniques are used, such as – linguistic observation, classification, systematization, comparison, abstraction, as well as the method of quantitative calculations. Conclusions. It is worth noting that the concept Moses is used in conjunction with adjectives to denote the greatness, sacrifice and other positive traits of the prophet: great, most gentle, most faithful, trusted; and lack of eloquence: heavy-tongued and heavy-toothed; and also with adjectives that emphasize Moses' belonging to the Lord: the servant of the Lord.The concept of Moses is presented in the text of the Bible by a spectrum of such conceptual features: “mediator between God and men”, “servant of the God” or “doer of the Lord”, “preacher of the God”, “fugitive who killed the Egyptian”, “prophet without eloquence”, “Everyone knows the sage”, “the great man in the land of Egypt”, “the softest of all”, “the defender of his brothers”, “the one who works for the benefit of his own people ”, “the one who was pulled out of the water”.