The study presents a selection of folkloric, mythological and literary symbols or motifs of longing, weakness and temptation from antiquity to modernity. The main section of the study aims for an indepth investigation of the motif of Fair Vida from the perspectives of longing and temptation and focuses on several typological groups of the motif of Fair Vida in Slovenia, and in so doing emphasises the differences in mening between individual groups in Slovenia and in the relation to their Albanian, Sicilian and Calabrian predecessors.
COBISS.SI-ID: 250153984
The study investigates linguistic reasons and the history of the transformation of biblical proper names necessitated by their transfer and transliteration from Hebrew and Aramaic into Greek, Latin and other ancient languages. The absence of some letters and sounds in Greek and Latin was the main reason for many phonetic changes in the transfer of the names from the original languages. In addition to this, translators and copyists could not easily reach a uniform phonetic system because the consonantal Hebrew itself allowed variations in spelling of names.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31118125
The article compares literary presentations of various characters in the Bible and in various cultures and eras, which manifest in their common existential core of longing for the unknown and that which is beyond reach. The theme of temptation is relevant to every human for it challenges all his fundamental ideals and values. Temptation is all the more dramattic, the broader the perspective of recognition, the power of human longing and the sense of the difference tetween good and evil.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31893805
The article deals with the reasons for linguistic and literary diversity in old translations of the Bible into Slavonic languages under three aspects: 1) Hebrew, Greek and Latin Bible as the sources for translators; 2) sources and peculiarity of old translations of the Bible into Slavonic languages; 3) expression possibilities of old Slavonic languages. The first translators of the Bible were creators of a nation's language and literature because they took from the existing verbal and literary treasure all the best.
COBISS.SI-ID: 31686701
The article deals with linguistic, literary and semantic-theological aspects of biblical key terms arche and logos. Logos constitutes in John's texts the essence of disclosing the New Testament christological redemptive process. A semantic and rhetorical analysis of the prologue to John's Gospel (1:1-18) discloses in logos a hermeneutical role attested already in the antiquity but in the content essentially enlarged by John.
COBISS.SI-ID: 9357059