Open Access„Psy i okaleczeńcy”
Author(s) -
Anna Rambiert-Kwaśniewska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
między oryginałem a przekładem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2391-6745
pISSN - 1689-9121
DOI - 10.12797/moap.26.2020.48.04
Subject(s) - neologism , multitude , scope (computer science) , philosophy , consistency (knowledge bases) , literature , linguistics , epistemology , computer science , artificial intelligence , art , programming language
„Psy i okaleczeńcy”. Translating Paul’s Invectives against Judaizers (Gal. 3:3; Phil. 3:2)
Insults (contumelia) and invectives (invectiva oratio) were known to inspired authors, but their overtones in modern translations usually lose their strength. Should a translator avoid harsh words contained in the original invectives, or should he remain faithful to them? It is shown by analyzing Paul’s invectives in Phil. 3:2 and in Gal. 3:1.3. The author claims that: 1) avoiding the invectives in the translation weakens a message of the original text (Gal. 3:1.3); 2) the translational consistency (“źli pracownicy”; Phil. 3:2) favors understanding of the invectives; 3) the invectives that exist in Polish, when their scope deviates from the Greek original, require clarification in footnotes (“psy”; Phil. 3:2); 4) the multitude of hapax legomena in the Bible justifies the use of neologisms, as long as they accurately reflect the content of the original (“przerzezanie”; Phil. 3:2).