The study represents the first major findings of author's extensive research of the motifs of longing, weakness and temptation based on the methodological principle of intertextuality. The project focuses on the meaning of biblical and other metaphorical expressions, sayings and archetypes of longing, weakness and temptation in relation to their background and contemporary usage.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29219117
The article deals with the complex phonetic relationship between the Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin forms of biblical proper names. Since the Greco-Latin alphabets are inadequate for rendering some Semitic consonants and since the Hebrew text orginally did not contain vowel sounds, the process of transliteration of proper names into Greek and Latin caused considerable phonetic changes.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30469677
The article deals with various fields of biblical foundations of Slovenian Culture, especially the linguistic and literary onces. Of utmost importance are translations of the Bible in all centuries. A deeper evaluiation of the role of the first Slovenian Bible translations was possible in the framework of the facsimile edition of the first translations in the series Biblia Slavica in the year 2006.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30751021
The article deals with the principles established by Martin Luther in his "Sendbrief vom Dolmetschen" published 1530. A critical assessment of Luther's views on translation method was in direct connection with Matjaž' own attempt to clarify this question in connection with the preparation of the new Slovenian Bible translation. This helps him to carry out his own task properly.
COBISS.SI-ID: 9175555
The article examines the meaning of the metaphor "the book of life" within four chosen contexts, which in concrete life situations bring out the figure of the prayer with regard to god?s plan of redemption. The research confirms that the linguistic bearer of the theological statement is usually the sentence and the still larger literary complex and not the word or the morphological and syntactical mechanisms.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4869722