An Attempt on Ecclesiastical and Academical Translation of LXX: Isaiah 13–18

Abstract

The third part of the church academic translation of the Septuagint book of the prophet Isaiah covers six chapters, 13 to 18. The translators draw upon the commentaries of St. John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret of Cyrus and other ancient church exegetes, as well as daughter translations and parallels in the text of the Septuagint itself. The Church Slavonic tradition remains significant in the translation process, although the goal is not to preserve its lexical equivalents to the detriment of the accepted translation methodology. In this part of the prophetic book, readers will learn how a mountain can be flat, what unburnt gold is, what parallel exists for the «arrows of babies», what onocentaurs and ship wings represent.