On Comenius’s Approaches to the Biblical Texts in his Manual or Core of the Whole Saint Bible
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Bohemica litteraria |
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| web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | Comenius; Manual or Core of the Whole Saint Bible (1623); Report and Study on Preaching |
| Description | The author had originally suggested investigating types of paraphrase in connection with Comenius’s literary theory as contained in his work Zpráva a naučení o kazatelství 2 (1651) as a possible way to research his approaches to the original biblical texts contained in his Manual. Further research has proved this way to be insufficiently effective, as Comenius used the terms paraphrase and periphrase interchangeably; his presented theory in Zpráva a naučení o kazatelství was different from his own literary practice, and, most importantly, Zpráva a naučení o kazatelství was devised in relation to the art of preaching (and not as an excerpt from the Bible, which the Manual in fact is). The illustration of paraphrase that I will present in this paper based on the Manual is, in effect, only a partial and very narrow angle from which Comenius’s methods of approach to biblical texts can be observed. I would like to try to present these methods at least a bit more accurately. |