Tłumaczenia biblijne w Wielkim księstwie Litewskim

Abstract

The article provides an overview of biblical translations created in the 16th century on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the article a specific translation technique and the reasons for the differences between the original and translated text are considered. A strong opposition to the accuracy of the translation is a different understanding of the text, due to differences in religion. By the time of the creation of most Slavic translations, Christian exegetics was fundamentally different both from the ancient understanding of sacred texts and from the interpretation adopted in the rabbinical tradition. Intertextual differences may be due to differences in culture that have nothing to do with the religious system. The difference between the original and the translation is due to the fact that not all translators were equally gifted linguists; they didn’t know the original language and the subject in question equally well. Therefore, in the textual structure of the translation, we can meet with various kinds of deviations from the essence and form of the original, up to language and substantial mistakes.