英語聖書(The Bible)의 語學的 考察 : Mainly on the Terminologies of St. Matthew = A Linguistical Study of the English Bible

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The best key to the understanding of English literature in all its epoch is to attain a competent knowledge of the English Bible-this is what Dr. Johnson, the renowned English linguist, has said as to the study of the English language. This is true not only to the foreigners who wishes to master the language but to these native speakers who delves into the heart of their literature.
There should be no questions about the influence the Bible has had upon the sum of the English literature. Far and away the Bible was the most popular book that the English people have ever read. Certainly they loved the Book, making it a part of their life. In their family life, not a single day passed without resort to it. Most English read it in the morning and at night before retirement.
Each age in history has had its own conventions far expression, written or spoken. And this change of expression forced the Book to be revised time to time, so as to fit more the sensations of the age. The Book has come through many revisions of translation from the original Hebrew and Greek.
Since the Book became an indispensable company for the English men and women, the words in the Bible helped English people enrich their vocabulary, not only in the variety of their daily conversation but in the forming of their moral characters. By reading the Bible, they could easily access to the one of the most excellent literary works the world has ever found. The Bible avowedly contributed to the building of the so called English gentlemanship, at the same time it also provide the English language with its style and flavor unique to itself.
The austerity and flexibility in the English language as we see today may as well be said inherited from the Bible. Really the Book in English is a literary masterpiece the English language has ever achieaed.
However, the Book has so many aspects, even in liguistical analysis, that this brief survey could never attempt to cover all of them. Accordingly, this article is concentrated mainly on the Gospel by St. Matthew, which will serve as an example of the books of the New Testament. The study also inevitably narrowed to the comparison of the biblical wordings with the present-day usages, and to a grammatical survey of the differences between the ways of expression. The main objective of this study is to provide the English students of this country with some, even if not adequate, guidlines to the understanding of the English language as used in the Bible.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1.緖言
• 2.英語 聖書에 關한 略語表
• 3.一般的인 特異한 語法
• 4.마태 福音(Matthew)의 英語
• 5.聖書에서 由來한 現代 英語
• 1) 圖有名詞
• 2) 書名, 題目名
• 3) 熟語, 慣用語
• 參考書目