Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.55.2.2
On use of words such as Nature, Luck and Fate in Old Testament Translations
Boris Havel
orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-9408
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Old Testament Hebrew worldview and language did not contain several concepts and words relating to abstract phenomena outside human emotions, will, mind and man’s relation to God, which are common to our modern speech and understanding of reality. Among such concepts are fate, luck, and nature in its abstract and concrete meaning. Some of those concepts can nevertheless be found in translations of the Old Testament. In this article the author presented some examples of use of those words primarily in the Croatian Bible translations and, referring to the source text in Hebrew, proposed their reconsideration.
Keywords
Old Testament; Hebrew; Bible Translation; Nature; Luck; Fate; Secularism
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240741
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Publication date:
22.7.2020.
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