한글 활판본 [성경직해]에 나타난 번역상의 특징

Abstract

After the Shengjing zhijie, was introduced to Koreans in the 18th Century, its translation was carried out by Catholics, and new concepts and terms came to Korea. It includes words of doctrine, liturgy, church system, theology as well as the various cultural heritages that European Catholicism has accumulated. Also, by analyzing the example of the chapter of “Gospel of Passion of Jesus Christ,” it was found that this document was not formed as an unilinear line of translation from Latin to Korean through Chinese. First of all, when the author Manuel Dias moved the Gospel passages from Latin to Chinese and gave proper commentary to the Catholics in China, the phenomenon of East-West cultural interaction occurred. Secondly, in the process of translating from Chinese to Korean manuscripts, another translations and text editing were performed by Korean Catholics and French missionaries. After contrasting Hangeul manuscripts with the Chinese texts, the excessively complicated commentary was deleted, the missing parts were filled, or the incorrectly edited parts were corrected. It was through the complicated process that Hangeul Typography “Holy Bible” was born. In this paper, as the Korean printed version of the Vulgate Bible was considered to be a finalized document, we examined the birth of neologism, the aspects of textual re-editing, the translational feature. Eventually, the Chinese book, the Shengjing zhijie began to be flowed in, and was distributed in the form of Korean manuscript, and settled as a Korean typography. This meant that Korean Catholicism provided an opportunity to form a new language community and a new temporal community. By translating the Chinese text of Manuel Dias into Korean, Catholics accepted new terminology about Western religion and culture. In addition, by reading the biblical passage, commentary, meditation, and prayer in the Gospel, rearranged according to the liturgical year system, a new time order was formed by Catholic time cycle that was different from the official order of lunar calendar. Consequently. was born a religious community that committed Jesus as Savior and had no fear on the governmental persecution.