1887년 개정판 『마가의젼한복음셔언해』고찰|RISS 상세보기

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This paper discusses and compares three Korean versions of the Gospel of Mark, published in 1885, 1887, and 1893, and confirms a new-found edition (donated by the American Bible Society to the Korean Bible Society in 2015) as the 1887 version. The 1885 edition was the first Korean gospel printed in Japan. It was translated by Yi Su-Jeong, printed at the Fukuin Printing Company in Yokohama, and published by Rev. Henry Loomis of the Japanese agency of the American Bible Society. By this identification, it argues that the other edition, which has been regarded as the 1887 one for a long time, is actually the revised edition printed at the Trilingual Press in Seoul in 1893.
The front cover of the 1887 edition has some notes and stamps, indicating that it was translated by Rev. Horace G. Underwood and Rev. Henry G. Appenzeller in Seoul. Three copies were sent to the ABS Library in New York by Mr. Loomis, which were catalogued on October 7, 1887, and one of the copies was purchased by the New York Public Library. Nevertheless, it was printed with the fund provided by Rev. J. A. Thomson of the Japan agency of the National Bible Society in Scotland. Mr. Loomis of the ABS wanted to publish it as its own exclusive publication, and the agents of British and Foreign Bible Society in China regarded the new edition as a rival version of Ross’s Korean gospel printed in Manchuria. The text reveals that the 1887 edition was printed with the same metal types used in the 1885 edition at the Fukuin Printing Company.
Interestingly enough, Rev. F. Ohlinger, director of the Trilingual Press in Seoul, imported the types from that Japanese company and printed a new edition of the Gospel of Mark in 1893. This final edition of Yi Su-Jeong’s Gospel of Mark was revised more by the missionaries in Seoul with more suitable terms and spelling system. For example, “Jesus Christ” was spelled “예수 그리스도” for the first time in the 1893 edition.
The significance of the 1887 edition were as follows: it was the first gospel translated by the missionaries in Seoul; Korean assistants (language teachers) participated in the translation and Mr. Song Sun-Yong, a former Catholic translator, transmitted the century-long Roman Catholic studies of the Korean language to the Protestant Church; the literary style and Chinese or Sino-Korean terms of the Yi Su-Jeong version were appreciated by the literary Koreans and North American missionaries in Seoul, and thus exerted considerable influence upon the Bible translation from 1887; the 1887 edition failed to be published with the joint help from the three Bible Societies, yet it stimulated such joint project to be officially adopted from 1894 in Korea; and finally the metal movable types used in Yi Su-Jeong’s Mark almost became the standard in mass publication of Protestant literature from 1887 to 1910 as well as in the Tongnip Sinmun, the first Korean newspaper printed at the Trilingual Press from April 1896.

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