«The betrayal» concept in the Bible and in the Koran (in Russian and English translations)

Author(s):  T.A. Poletaeva, associate Professor, Orthodox St. Tikhon Humanitarian University, Moscow, Russia, polet_ta@mail.ru

Issue:  Volume 37, № 3

Rubric:  Romanic-German Philology

Annotation:  A review of research of the «betrayal» concept in foreign and Russian scientific literature is done. The spiritual sources of this concept are analyzed through the analysis of its multiple meaning and figurative expression in the Bible in two translations - the Synod Russian translation and English King James Bible. It is clarified, that the Russian version of the Bible allows to interpret this concept deeper, than King James Bible. The Holy Scriptures directly indicate, that a betrayer is a man who violates the commandments of God. The Bible also allows to see the whole variety of characteristics of a betrayer. Then in the article the ways of expression of the «betrayal» concept in the Koran are examined. It is clarified, that as a condemned act a betrayal in the Koran is determined only with respect to Allah, but between people it is prescribed as a norm. According to the Koran a liar, a deceiver is Allah himself. It is concluded that, in comparison with the Bible, the representations of the «betrayal» concept in the Koran are characterized by poorer language. Collation of the Russian and the English translations of the Koran also allows to talk about the hidden, hardly expressed character of the «betrayal» concept in the Koran in comparison with the biblical text, as well as to mark out a specific representation of this concept in the word of «disbelievers / unbelievers», which has a higher frequency in comparison with its other representatives, and tendentious character

Keywords:  a concept, a synonymous concept, a representative, semantic, marked, a metaphor, betrayal, spiritual essence of betrayal

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