Ks. prof. Aleksy Klawek i początki Biblii Poznańskiej

• Authors: Zdzisław J. Kapera

Title variants

EN

Rev. Professor Aleksy Klawek and the Poznań Bible

Abstracts

EN

The Rev. Prof. Aleksy Klawek (1890-1969) was a great Polish Old Testamentscholar who can certainly also be called a great Hebrew scholar.His dream was to create a modern translation of the Bible directly fromHebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and Poland had long been in need of one, asWujek’s translation of 1597 was outdated and not easy to understand. Butit took Klawek years before he decided to present his first fragmentarytranslations; this happened in the late 1930s and 1940s. It is not clear whyKlawek did not join the team of translators of the so-called “Tyniec Bible”,now known as the “Millennium Bible”, in 1959, but being aware of the weakness of Father Augustyn Jankowski’s translating team, Klawek formedhis own team before the publication of the “Millennium Bible” composedmostly of his former Ph.D. students. In the end, we did not receive a moderntranslation of the Bible from Klawek’s hands as he died in 1969. His ideawas put into practice under the editorship of his pupil Michał Peter andMarian Wolniewicz. As Klawek’s translations of Psalms, Song of Songs andDaniel remained unfinished, all that the editors could do was to gratefullyacknowledge Klawek’s initiative. The new “Poznań Bible”, which appearedin the years 1974-1976, is much prized for its quality (clarity and accuracy)and its extensive commentaries.

Keywords

PL

Biblia Poznańska; Biblia Tysiąclecia; konferencje biblistów polskich; tłumaczenia Biblii; Augustyn Jankowski; Aleksy Klawek; Michał Peter; Marian Wolniewicz

EN

The Poznań Bible; The Millennium Bible; symposia of the Polish biblical scholars; translations of the Bible into Polish; Augustyn Jankowski; Aleksy Klawek; Michał Peter; Marian Wolniewicz

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Collectanea Theologica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 87
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 5-36

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Zdzisław J. Kapera

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/ct.2017.87.2.01

Biblioteka Nauki

2035382