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Natia Dundua
The Terms of Heavenly Beings in the Bible
Summary
The paper deals with the problems of translation of religious terminology in the Bible. The
work focuses on how the language situation of that time was reflected in Georgian during
the translation of Biblical texts, how the religious vocabulary was developed and what were
the stages of its development:
1) What the translator had before him;
2) How were the terms denoting new concepts created;
3) What changes did these terms undergo together with the development of Christian
literature.
From this point of view, the article analyzes the terms denoting heavenly beings (angelozi,
kerubini, serabini, ešmak’i, demoni, sat’ana,asmodeosi, virdevi, sirinozi, drak’oni, gmiri,
goliati ) in the Georgian translations of the Bible. The material is selected from all the
available Georgian manuscripts and is grouped according to the meaning and form.
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