Biblical Origin Research Articles

Expressions of biblical origin in learners’ dictionaries of proverbs and phraseological units

The need to improve the lexicographic description of the phraseological units and proverbs of biblical ori[1]gin which are not always fully parameterised in learners’ dictionaries, determines the relevance of the research presented in this article. The study aims to justify the methods for expanding the historical and etymological parametric zone of dictionary entries representing proverbs and phraseological units traced back to the Bible. Moreover, another goal is to develop new models for describing this linguistically and culturally valuable material in learners’ dictionaries intended, first and foremost, for primary school learners. Parametric analysis of modern lexicographic publications enabled us to identify the specific features of presenting the cultural and historical background of phraseological units and proverbs of biblical origin to schoolchildren, as well as to outline ways of improving their historical and etymological commentary. We developed our own materials using the method of lexicographic modeling and the author techniques of etymological paraphrasing. Through historical and etymological analysis, the origin of phraseological units and proverbs selected for lexicographic description was specified. The results of the study supplemented the theoretical and methodological basis of learner’s lexicography, as well as substantiated the use of models for describing proverbs and phraseological units dating back to biblical texts in a discursive dictionary. For instance, to represent expressions that are culturally significant but rare in modern speech, we suggest using a model of a comprehensive linguo-cultural text written by the author-compiler. In addition, a model of a narrative text on the issues relevant to children is proposed for actively functioning proverbs and phraseological units. The paper concludes that the developed lexicographic description models foreground the spiritual and moral potential of proverbs and phraseological units of biblical origin. Moreover, working with dictionary materials enables the accomplishment of educational objectives. It is emphasised that the practical va[1]lue of the developed models for describing proverbs and phraseological units lies in the possibility of their use by teachers when preparing informative teaching materials on phraseology and paremiology for a Russian language lesson or an extracurricular event. As a research outlook, we plan to develop the concept of a learner’s phraseological dictionary for secondary school students with extensive use of the biblical text and various research assignments.

The Israelite Community Council of Sidon 1914–1948: Between the Yishuv and Grand Liban

Abstract The history of the Jews of Lebanon is often overlooked—they are considered victims of the Arab–Israeli conflict, or within the context of the wider Levantine Jewish community. Sidon, a port city of biblical origins, is a distinct case study through which to examine the interplay between Zionism and Lebanese nationalism because of Sidon’s historical background, geographic proximity to Palestine, and subordinate position to the Beiruti Jewish community. I show how the Israelite Community Council operated within a contested national-ethnic sphere, where it effectively straddled the Zionism promoted by members of the Yishuv and the emerging Lebanese nationalism of the newly established Grand Liban. Initially seeing itself as part of the Land of Israel/Eretz Israel, the Jewish community of Sidon asserted itself within the multiconfessional Lebanese state. Sitting at the crossroads of competing ethnonational currents, Sidon’s Jewish community leaders espoused a fluid, local-territorial-based identity, one that was at ease both with Jewish and Lebanese nationalism. We expand our understanding of this now dispersed community through an examination of the evolution of national borders, intercommunal relationships, and engagement with the Yishuv.

Biblical names in Ukraine: regional Aspects

This paper presents a study of the Biblical names in regional and historical aspects. Throughout history the Bible has served as the most important religious book for many people. As a result, the Bible has had a significant impact on various aspects of culture, education, and traditions. Ukraine has been characterized by the use of the Biblical names since the adoption of Christianity which influenced on the whole history of the state. Since Biblical personal names are both the lexical units and the symbols, it is interesting to see the presence of these names in different regions and epochs. The present study aims at pointing out at regional aspects of Biblical personal names. The paper provides a brief overview of naming trends in the assignment of Biblical names and Christian names in Ukraine. Our database of all names was fed the names of 2,000 people. The material is taken from the list of students who studied at Odesa State Agrarian University from 2014-2024 with the help of a continuous sampling method. The methodology, both statistical and qualitative, had two phases: a) comparison of the ratio of Biblical names to non-Biblical names, and b) classification of discovered Biblical names. This research is just one aspect of a series of investigations whose goal is to describe the anthroponomical system of Odesa, Ukraine in diachronic and synchronic format. The findings suggest that personal names with Biblical origin continue to be widely used in Ukraine. We emphasize that the study of anthroponyms in different regions and epochs is a valuable tool for understanding the history and cultural traditions of Ukraine. Therefore, the importance of onomastics as an interdisciplinary science affecting History, Sociology, Theology, Literature, and regional studies in the research of the Biblical names in current and past Ukraine is shown. This study draws upon three theoretical frameworks: anthroponomastics (Felecan & Mihali, 2023; Piddubna, 2021, etc.), socio-onomastics (Ainiala, 2016; Beley, 2019, etc.), and the regional onomastics (Braychenko, 2019; Buga, 2013; Chuchka, 1970; Frai, 2021; Matsyuk, 2021; Sholia, 2018, etc.).

THE EVOLUTION OF CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY IN THE VI-VII CENTURIES

The II-III centuries represented the period of the birth of Christian sacred art through Christians imitating the custom of pagans, from whose ranks most of them came, to decorate their graves, sarcophagi or mausoleums with images and even by borrowing some pagan symbols and themes, to which they obviously gave a new, Christian meaning, to which, of course, exclusively Christian themes were added, most often of biblical origin, most of them having a narrative-historical character. In the 4th-5th centuries, under the careful supervision of the Church, a synthesis was made regarding the themes addressed, by abandoning some, by taking over others from the imperial imaginary, prevalence acquiring a dogmatic character, from the desire to express and through the mediation of figurative art, not only through the poetic, transposed into songs, the truths of faith formulated at the first four ecumenical synods, but also in terms of styles. In this second stage of the history of Christian sacred art, especially in the 5th century, as a result of the synthesis achieved in the capital of the empire between the two great artistic currents that manifested themselves in painting, the Hellenistic-Alexandrian and the SyroPalestinian, was formed the Constantinopolitan painting school and the stylistic features specific to this school crystallized . The present study aims to point out the main characteristics and developments of Christian sacred art in the Byzantine Empire starting from the time of Emperor Justinian I until the outbreak of Byzantine iconoclasm.

Understanding Void and Voidable Marriages in the Matrimonial Causes Act and the Holy Bible

The importance of marriage to human existence cannot be overemphasised. Marriage was the first institution created by God for comfortability and procreation of men and women. Many marriages were full of complexities which resulted in divorce, incompatibilities, dishonesty, prostitution, inconsistencies, and unrest. Therefore, the study comparatively analysed void and voidable marriages in the Matrimonial Causes Act and the Holy Bible. Historical and case study designs were adopted. Doctrinal method was used in data collection. The primary sources of data were the Holy Bible, Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended), Matrimonial Act Cap M6; Matrimonial Causes Rules Cap 220, Laws of the Federation 2004; sources of secondary data were published textbooks, law reports, scholarly peer-reviewed journals, and articles. Data were content-analysed and presented thematically. Findings revealed that the Matrimonial Causes Act and Matrimonial Causes Rules being the laws and rules of marriages as constituted in usages and application are of biblical origin and founded on a Christian base. Many couples forced themselves into marriages without thinking of the consequences of being void or voidable marriages based on trying your luck. Matrimonial laws, rules, and the Holy Bible envisaged and prohibited void and voidable marriages. The study concluded that marriage was the first union God created. Intending couples should seek the face and God’s guidance before marriage. The study recommended that void and voidable marriages be avoided. Christians should attend church seminars on marriages before proposing to marry. Pastors should preach sermons on marriages which will expose members of the church to the intricacies of marriages.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BIBLICALISMS IN UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH

Objective. The objective of this article is to conduct a comparative analysis of biblical expressions in Ukrainian and English.. Methods. The main scientific results are obtained applying a set of general scientific and special research methods, namely: analysis and generalization of scientific literature on the problems of the functioning and translation of biblicalisms; theoretical generalization, analysis and synthesis; holistic approach to the study of linguistic phenomena; comparative, descriptive and analytical methods; and the method of continuous sampling.. Results. The authors analyze the ways in which phraseological units of biblical origin are formed, define groups of biblical units, ways of rendering biblical expressions in the process of translation and conduct a comparative analysis of biblical units in English and Ukrainian (pointing out their common features and semantic, grammatical, and stylistic differences). Functioning of biblicalisms in English and Ukrainian shows intriguing similarities and marked differences, reflecting their different cultural, historical and linguistic foundations. The Bible's profound influence on language, literature, and culture has provided a rich reservoir of idiomatic and figurative expressions that resonate with speakers of both languages. The comparative analysis of biblical phraseology between English and Ukrainian emphasizes the rich cultural and linguistic ties that exist between the two languages. These expressions play a significant role in shaping the literary and cultural heritage of each language and remain relevant in the modern context. The authors conclude that, while some biblical sayings are translated literally from English to Ukrainian and vice versa, others may undergo adaptation according to the linguistic and cultural nuances of each language and culture. Translators often strive to preserve the original meaning and cultural significance, ensuring that the expressions resonate with the target audie

National-Cultural Specificity of Biblical Idioms

The article investigates the representation features of idioms of biblical origin on the material of various languages. Idioms of biblical origin are regarded as linguocultural and nationally specific units, reflecting the peculiarities of mentality and religious worldview of a particular linguistic culture. The article reveals a number of extralinguistic factors that determine both the universal and specific features of idioms of biblical origin representation in various languages. The factors contributing to the universality of idioms of biblical origin include: 1) the commonality of Christian culture; 2) the influence of the Greek and Latin languages on subsequent translations of the Bible used nowadays. The followings are singled out as extralinguistic factors that determine the specificity of idioms of biblical origin in various languages: 1) the emergence time and dissemination scope of biblical translations; 2) confessional affiliation of a certain ethnic group; 3) peculiarities of national perception of the world and cultural values of a particular linguistic culture; 4) the socio-political system of a particular era or country; 5) mass-media factors. The national-cultural specificity of idioms of biblical origin is manifested in their non-equivalence in a particular language, the quantitative divergence of idioms of biblical origin included into a particular language from a single source, differences in the semantic capacity and meaning of idioms of biblical origin used in each of the languages, the emphasis on certain images and cognitive features activated in idioms of biblical origin, in existance of a set of borrowed idioms of biblical origin from different languages. It should be noted that even universal idioms of biblical origin functioning in different languages can be nationally specific due to the differences in the activated semantic features and figurative components of idioms.

Противопоставление и способы его выражения в английских и болгарских паремиях

The research aims to identify the typological differences of contrast and contradiction within the syntactic structure of English and Bulgarian proverbs as one of the features of paremiological antonymy manifested at all levels of the paremiological system. The comparative analysis is carried out within the semantic and the pragmatic trend in modern linguistics based on the material of genetically different but typologically similar languages that belong to the same group of analytical languages. The research is novel in that it is the first to study and describe the specificity of the constructions with the meaning of contrast and contradiction within the syntactic structures of English and Bulgarian proverbial parallels to Russian proverbs belonging to the paremiological core. Contrast and contradiction are the core features of proverbial formulae/models. The concepts of contrast and contradiction, accepted in Russian and foreign linguistics, are distinguished in the article. The types of adversative relations are identified. English and Bulgarian proverbs of the similar logico-semantic group can have different types of adversative meanings or relations. As a result, a similarity in the syntactic structures and semantic content of proverbial parallels of Biblical origin or related to global proverbs has been revealed.

Between Covenant and Contract: Jewish Political Thought and Contemporary Political Theory

Social contract theory has long been at the center of political theory, and one of the inheritors of the social contract tradition, liberalism, reverberates through contemporary political life. And yet, an overlooked element of liberalism are the biblical origins of social contract theory. Specifically, how the early modern political theorists were reading Hebrew Bible, and the kinds of interpretive transformations of Hebrew Bible that take place on the pages of works like Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, John Locke’s Second Treatise, and more. Covenant is the centerpiece of this entanglement. When drawn from Hebrew Bible and read in the context of Jewish political thought, covenant has a very different meaning to that which social contract theories attribute it. This Jewish understanding of covenant concretizes a practice of politics that is constitutively dissenting and agonistic, in contrast to the command–obedience model typical of social contract theory. Furthermore, covenant loses its unique conceptual framework—thus its contribution to political thought—when it is secularized into a social contract. This Jewish conception of covenant offers a new way to understand politics and democratic practice through “covenantal authority” and its constitutively dissenting, agonistic, and circulating qualities. “Covenantal authority” captures the constitutive undecidability of who has authority over the text.

IDIOM БОГЪ ВѢСТЬ/ВEДАЕТ/ЗНАЕТ I BOG ZNA U RUSKOM I SRPSKOM JEZIKU

The subject of this article is the idiom БОГЪ ВѢСТЪ / ВЕДАЕТ/ ЗНАЕТ, that is, БОГЪ ВѢСТЪ / Bog zna in Russian and Serbian. In the first chapter, which deals with the origin and genesis of the expression, the evidence of its biblical origin is given, while the process of its development as a phrase, its course and the reasons for the emergence of a new meaning of the idiom in communicative use are explained. The second chapter provides an analysis of the idiom from a paradigmatic aspect. Its lexical, morphological and stylistic variants are analyzed. The third chapter deals with the status of the idiom черт/бес/леший ЗНАЕТ in the Russian language, i.e., джବ¬vo zna (will znati, bi znao) in Serbian and its relationship to the idiom Бог весть/ ведает/ знает, that is, God knows. Descriptive, phraseological - monolingual and translation dictionaries - both contemporary and historical - were used as the basic corpus in the research. As an additional corpus, we used our own file created on the basis of excerpts of examples from literary and artistic works and epic poetry. The National Corpus of the Russian Language (NKRJ) served us as a basic check of the functioning of idioms in context. The application of the diachronic, contrastive and descriptive method on the aforementioned corpus was aimed at discovering the origin and genesis of the idiom highlighted in the title. The semantics of the expression Бог весть/ знает is identical to the semantics of the idiom черт знает, with the same syntactic structure, which unequivocally proves that it is an idiom of a structural-semantic model, but, on the other hand, despite the fact that both idioms have an identical global meaning, in the key component of the expression Бог i черт (God and the Devil) are made distinct, and are actualized today in the process of communication despite the phrasing of the meaning of the original expression. It is precisely this transparent internal form that causes a double actualization of the idiom in use and which means that the mentioned idioms in a specific context usually differ in their connotative value. Ta The different connotations of the idioms Бог знает and черт знает were created as a set of expressive (metaphorical and evaluative) elements related to the key components of the idiom, i.e. God or the Devil, The analysis of numerous examples of the contextual use of the two idioms in our literature confirms that apart from the meaning of uncertainty or doubt, which they have in common, they clearly also differ from each other in the connotative sphere. The idiom Бог знает (God knows) is used predominantly in situations that are accompanied by, if not positive, then at least neutral pragmatic content, while черт знает (the Devil knows) give rise to uncertainties and ambiguities, but often also expresses anger, displeasure, resignation or even rage. This type of differentiated relationship between the idiom and the component theonym and demonym can also be applied to the similar idioms used in Serbian.

Простые и сложные окказиональные преобразования библейских фразеологизмов в произведениях У. Шекспира

The article studies the behaviour of phraseological units of biblical origin in the works by William Shakespeare. The subject of the research is the ways biblical phraseological units are used in his plays. The novelty of the paper lies in the identification of simple and complex occasional transformations of biblical phraseological units in Shakespeare’s works. Linguistic material was selected using the method of phraseological identification proposed by A.V. Kunin and successfully tested by numerous studies in the field of modern phraseology. In addition, macroparadigmatic methods and related linguistic methods were applied. Occasional changes in phraseological units in a literary work are considered here not as an example of destruction of phraseology, but as an element of the author’s creative use of phraseological units in each specific case. We were able to identify two groups of occasional transformations of phraseological units of biblical origin in Shakespeare’s plays: 1) a group of simple occasional transformations, which includes three main types of morphological changes in the components of biblical phraseological units: a) changes in the verbal component, b) changes in the substantive component, c) changes in the adjectival component, and 2) a group of complex occasional transformations. The results showed that occasional transformations of biblical phraseological units introduced into a literary text enrich and enhance its imagery, highlight personal traits of the characters and help to capture the very essence of Shakespeare’s drama.

Pestilence (דֶבר) and the Plague of the Firstborn: A Study of the Origins of an Ancient Exegesis

Abstract This article analyzes an ancient tradition related to the story of the exodus from Egypt, which combines a plague of pestilence (dever) with the final plague, the plague of the firstborn (makkat bekhorot). In the first sections, I trace the sources in which this tradition appears and attempt to identify the biblical origins of this tradition and the exegetical difficulties it tackles. In the final section, I aim to show how this tradition sheds light on an abstruse passage in the Passover Haggadah. By completing the different parts of this inquiry, it becomes possible to delineate the evolution of the link between the plague of the firstborn and pestilence as stemming from key issues within the biblical exodus tradition that preoccupied exegetes in antiquity.

Sekrety literatury i głód wtajemniczenia

This article concerns secrets and secrecy in narrative works. The author, following in the footsteps of Auerbach and Kermode, argues that secrets should be understood as discontinuous places, gaps that demand to be filled. Auerbach and Kermode pointed to the biblical origins of the secret narrative. The latter in The Genesis of Secrecy. On the Interpretation of Narrative noted that secrets presuppose a mode of initiation – this was the case in the gospel of St Mark he analysed, addressed to believers. However, this sender’s intention also appears in strictly literary texts that operate the convention of the secret. This article refers to four twentieth-century Polish narrative texts that use elements of secrecy in different ways. Mrożek’s Moniza Clavier conceals the confabulatory character of the first-person statement, Miłosz’s Dolina Issy and Gombrowicz’s Kosmos conceal the deeply autobiographical character of the reflection on individual fate, while the narrative in Lem’s Solarisactivates the possibility of ‘vertical reading’, referring to the concept of some absolute. Secrets in literary texts tend to be secularized versions of religious narratives addressed to the initiated, and the promise of an integration of discontinuous places attracts sceptics and believers.

БИБЛЕЙСКАЯ ФРАЗЕОЛОГИЯ В ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

The multifaceted nature of the study of biblical phraseology today is due, on the one hand, to the ambiguity and insufficient study of biblical phraseological units, on the other hand, to their active use and frequent reproducibility in different types of discourse. Moreover, their study requires the involvement of several approaches, such as structural-semantic, linguocognitive and cognitive-discursive, linguocultural, and finally, functional. In this respect, the relevance of the presented problem is beyond any doubt. Designating the study of functional specificity of the phraseological units of biblical etymology, presented in the contexts of political communication as the aim of this study, we offer a comprehensive coverage of issues related to the specifics of communication in the political sphere, in particular the analysis of approaches to the definition of the notion of publicistic discourse, its key characteristics and ingredient features, consideration of the functioning of phraseological units of biblical origin and their usual and occasional variants. The methodology of this study is determined by the purpose and scientific hypothesis, which implies the identification of a representative corpus of examples of political discourse contexts, containing biblical phraseological units, performing the leading persuasive function. The research methods are as follows: the method of phraseological identification and phraseological description proposed by prof. A.V. Kunin, the contextual method, the method of lexico-semantic analysis, the search corpus method. The results of the research allow concluding the following: biblical phraseological units are a separate microsystem, biblical phraseological units are actively used in oral and written speech of native speakers in different types of discourse due to their polyfunctionality and variability, in political discourse biblical phraseological units are used in the function of persuasion. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time a systematic study of biblical phraseology in English and Russian on the example of their functioning in the texts of political discourse. The currently available works are few and sporadic. The practical significance of the study is determined by the possibility of using the data obtained in the classroom as part of the disciplines Fundamentals of First Foreign Language Theory, English Language Stylistics, special course English Language Phraseology.

ETYMOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH A ZOOCOMPONENT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

The given article aims at analyzing etymological peculiarities of phraseological units with a zoocomponent in the English language. The following methods of research have been employed in the process of our investigation: general scientific such as analysis of scientific sources and systematization; the method of etymological analysis for establishing the origin of the phraseological units under study and the quantitative method to summarize the received data. Zoonyms are characterized by a wide-spread nature and are actively used in English to reinforce the human image, situations, life experience, and their main features of character. The most traditional principle of phraseological units classification is based on their origin, the latter is regarded as a peculiar sphere of human activity or a natural phenomenon. These are the expressions typical for the representatives of various jobs, or connected to agriculture, daily routine, fauna, sports, etc. There also exist borrowings from the Bible or the works by Shakespeare, or other famous authors. Having analyzed the origin of 1000 English phraseological units with a zoocomponent, we found out that English proper idioms are dominant and comprise 51% of all the material under study. 17% belong to the aphorisms of famous people, mostly by W. Shakespeare and G. Chaucer. Classical origin from Ancient Greek or Roman mythology have 14% of the idioms under analysis. The job sphere represents another source of their origin including only 9% of phraseological units. The ones with Biblical origin are quite few in number (only 6%). Another 3% have a vague origin.

From dissonant dominance to synchronic sanctity: Relational extraction as counter‐resonance to extractivism

AbstractThere is a growing tendency within various disciplines of the humanities to conflate the terms extraction and extractivism. While the first word has many everyday uses—tooth extraction, vanilla “extract”—the latter term was specifically coined to identify a malevolent imaginary that indemnifies the removal of so‐called “resources,” especially when that displacement involves layers of violence and/or looks solely to satisfy a particular economic aim. Given these disparate denotations, the unqualified use of “extraction” synonymously with “extractivism” introduces unnecessary ambiguity, inviting divergent arguments that ultimately diminish an otherwise worthy discussion and losing sight of the grave issues that underlie the conversation's original intent. As such, this essay investigates the biblical origins of this false equivalency and suggests how this usage might be disentangled to properly recenter the malevolence its users are attempting to describe.

Shakespearean Eptonyms of Biblical Origin

The article considers the issue of understanding the nature of eptonyms (phraseological units that are implicitly connected to the author who coined them, have deep meaning and recognizable character) in the plays of Shakespeare. The purpose of the research is in giving insight into the semantic-structural process of eptonymization and explaining how the transformed phraseological units become intertextual elements with double character (express the author’s individual concept and simultaneously have the reference to the Bible). The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is the pragmastylistic and discursive paradigm. The method of double application proposed by L. P. Diadechko enabled the trace of eptonym coining. The findings suggest that some phraseological units of biblical origin become eptonyms through the process of derivation and modulation, employing the strategies of adaptation, addition or omission, substitution of some components, contamination of several phraseological units. Shakespeare’s deep knowledge of the Scripture enabled him to make use of biblicisms in his writing to actualize the emotional, aesthetic, and thematic richness of his works. Further application of the research outcomes is promising for investigating the Shakespearean eptonyms of ancient origin.

Biblical vocabulary of the Modern Literary Hindi language and its formation methods

The article displays the derivational methods of nouns and adjectives in the modern literary Hindi languge. The determination of the productivity of word-formation processes of the modern literary Hindi language is carried out on the basis of prefix, suffix, prefix-suffix methods of word-formation and stem-formation. To cover the topic of the proposed research, the author analyzes the scientific works of Ukrainian, European and Indian linguists to reveal the concepts of «derivational processes» in language, «biblicality» in linguistic culture. The scientists conclude that the lexical system of a language, including the biblical language, reflects the mentality and culture of a particular ethnic group and its perception of the world. The paper also considers the typological features of the word-formation methods of the modern literary Hindi language and offers the comparative characteristics of suffixes and prefixes, semantic and structural features of the biblical origin vocabulary based on the works of Ukrainian, European and Asian linguistics. The author finds out that the study of the biblical vocabulary of the modern literary Hindi language determines the national and cultural patterns of the Hindi speakers in India, Christians in particular, who use the biblical origin vocabulary in everyday life. The research establishes the most productive derivatives for the formation of nouns and adjectives, as well as active word-formation methods of nouns and adjectives of the biblical origin of the modern literary Hindi language. The scientific research identifies the main derivational methods of nouns and adjectives that have a systematic functioning in the biblical text of the modern literary Hindi language. The results of the research prove that the variety of prefixes and suffixes of the Bible lexicon in the modern literary Hindi language indicates its dynamic development.

Комунікативний потенціал літературної фразеології в медіа

The article is devoted to stylistic functions of literary phraseology in media communication. The author opinion that the media sphere is a special type of verbalized language consciousness that commensurates with actual processes of language development is formulated and argued. Language markers, representative for the media, their origin, functional resource, effective forms of presentation, analysis of the ability to influence the semantic development of language and form the cultural field of modern mass consciousness are important issues for a linguist in such investigation objectivity. The emphasis is made on the fact that the active processes of development of modern information societies cause the transformation of language communication, in particular in the media, where the functional intentions of the literary word and phraseology are significant and effective. The functions of literary phraseology of biblical origin, author's phraseology of Ukrainian writers in media communication are considered, primarily from the point of view of their transformation, ability to unite the text. Special attention is also focused on the intertextual possibilities of literary phraseology as the ability of intercultural semantic circles to outline the associative aesthetic and ethical potential of modern European culture. The author interprets the intentions of phraseological units as multivariate communicative units, characterized by semantic field, aptness, stability and the mentioned emotional, expressive potential, that collectively allows to perform a manipulative function and strengthen the influence on the recipient's consciousness. The use of literary phraseology in the media, which is determined by the expressive potential of these language units, the conciseness of the form, the ability to symbolize, to combine humanistic ideas and intercultural ties of modern civilization, is elaborated. Emphasis is placed on the expediency and perspective of interpreting the possibilities of literary phraseology in the active communicative space of the media.

Исследование вариативности фразеологизмов библейского происхождения (на материале англо- и немецкоязычных корпусных данных)

The article studies the biblical phraseology of the English and German languages in terms of its variability; in particular, the structural and semantic features of English and German biblical phraseological units are revealed taking into account the use of the search corpus method and on the basis of corpus data; the usual and occasional types of the variants of phraseological units of biblical origin are identified; the examples from text corpora illustrating the general use of the studied phraseological units in different types of discourse and text genres are analysed. The aim of the study is to identify the most frequent and commonly used variants of biblical phraseological units by native speakers with attention to the types of va¬riants based on the use of the search corpus method in the field of phraseology and the use of corpus data. The scientific novelty of the study lies in the identification and description of the variants of biblical phraseological units that function in fiction and media discourse, as well as their prevalence in different text genres on the basis of using the search corpus method and corpus data, which greatly facilitate and optimize research processes, as well as increase objectivity and reliability of the results obtained in a short time.As a result, based on the corpus data, the most frequent biblical phraseological units in English and German have been identified, the variants of biblical phraseological units have been distributed according to their prevalence including by the types of discourse, and the frequency structural types of biblical phra-seological units as well as their modified variants have been identified.