of the Akathist Hymn
The present study goal was to reveal the main changes in the text of the Akathistos Hymn
during the correction of the Lenten Triodion in the 17th century. There are two stages: Kiev
correction of the beginning of the 17th century and Nikon correction of the middle of the 17th
century. The investigation was performed on the material of Moscow early printed books of
the beginning and the end of the 17th century by the method of comparative linguistic-
textological analysis of variations. The proposed classification of changes is based on the
reasons for their introduction in the text of the hymn. In total, six main categories of variations were distinguished. These are the result of 1) textual differences between Greek manuscripts and editions; 2) correction of errors of previous Slavonic versions; 3) reappearance of
variants of early Slavonic versions; 4) modernization of the Church Slavonic language;
5) stylistic changes to mark the Church Slavonic language as a sacred language of high literature; 6) “Hellenization” of the Church Slavonic language which was to preserve the sacred
component of the translation. Special attention was paid to the last group of corrections
aimed at achieving the highest possible word-by-word and morpheme-by-morpheme correlation of the original and translated texts. The consistent introduction of such corrections in
view of minimizing the element of interpretation in the sacred text translation and achieving
both semantic and formal correlation between the original and receiving languages led to the
changes not only in the text being translated but also in the structure of the Church Slavonic
language in general.
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