[B-Greek] Russian deuterocanon?
Steve Puluka
spuluka at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 28 08:03:11 EDT 2004
on 9/28/04 6:34 AM, Curtis Hinson at curtis at curtishinson.com wrote:
> I have been examining the Russian Synodal translation, and it seems to me to
> be a translation from the LXX and not from the MT. However, all the copies
> I've been able to get my hands on are missing the deuterocanon. I find it a
> bit disturbing that someone would value the LXX enough to translate from it,
> but then cannibalize it. The titles of the books are not even Russian, they
> are transliterated directly from the LXX titles of the books.
>
> Does anyone know anything about the background of this translation, or
> whether there is a Russian translation of the deuterocanon? Replies in
> private email may be better since this ranges beyond strictly Greek issues
> into translation issues.
Curtis,
The Synodal Old Testament is a translation of the Old Slavonic with primary
reference to the MT text of the Old Testament. The Old Slavonic is a
understudied translation from the Greek LXX. But there are some who see the
later books as late translations from the Vulgate, not early Greek.
(Lagarde is one if I remember correctly.)
Russian scholarship during the Synodal translation took the Old Slavonic as
the primary text in updating the translation of scripture with reference to
the original languages, Hebrew in the OT. But since this is a translation
from the Old Slavonic, there are also points where some claim that the
Vulgate was the point of reference to the translators.
See Jelicoe, The Septuagint and Modern study, for a discussion on early LXX
translations including the Old Slavonic. Swete has a similar discussion in
his "An Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek." This one is on-line at
the CCEL project.
http://www.ccel.org/s/swete/
--
Steve Puluka
Master's Student, SS Cyril & Methodius Seminary
Cantor, Holy Ghost Church, Mckees Rocks PA
http://www.geocities.com/spuluka
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