http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40770 Reformacja a kultura - 500 lat Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:26:42 GMT 2026-04-05T18:26:42Z https://dspace.uni.lodz.pl:443/xmlui/bitstream/id/a7339695-a862-42c6-bfa9-d28be632361a/ http://hdl.handle.net/11089/40770 http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44798 Reformacja i polskie przekłady Biblii Sznajderski, Tadeusz Płuciennik, Jarosław The article dispels the myth that the Reformation caused interest in the Bible through critical activity of Martin Luther. The humanism of the 15th century, in the first stage of the Renaissance, through the works of Jan Gerson, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Thomas Morus, Laurentino Vall, focused interest on the Bible philosophical study, and on popularizing it in national languages. The golden era of the Polish Bible is constituted by publishing the New Testament translated by Stanisław Murzynowski in 1553, issuing the Leopolita’s Bible — the first Polish Bible translated by Jan Nicz Leopolita for the Catholic Church in 1561, editing the Jakub Wujek Bible in 1599 for Jesuits and the Gdańsk Bible in 1632, translated by Daniel Mikołajewski. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44798 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44797 Mickiewicz i „duch luterski” Kurska, Anna Płuciennik, Jarosław The paper attempts to present Adam Mickiewicz’s idea behind the ‘Lutheran spirit’ against a background of the vicissitudes of producing Poezje (‘Poetry’), vol. 8 (1836). The author of the article ponders why the poet returns to the Lutheran mentality based on the need for forging an individual bond with God outside church. Consequently, the author’s interest revolves around Mickiewicz’s project of spirituality, created in the eight volume of the Paris edition, which goes beyond Catholicism and blurs the boundaries between Christian denominations. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44797 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44796 Perfectly Imperfect — the Scottish Psalter of 1564 Charzyńska-Wójcik, Magdalena Płuciennik, Jarosław The return to the original languages of the Bible was one of the key tenets of the Protestant reform and the embodiment of the Renaissance cry ad fontes. The circumvention of the Septuagint and the Vulgate was, therefore, not necessarily so much an outright expression of hostility towards Rome as an articulation of a desire for fidelity to the text; hence the emergence of a plethora of new Latin translations of the original Hebrew Psalter. The Scottish metrical Psalter of 1564, which is going to be the focus of this paper, however, was not based on the Hebrew source but either on its fresh Latin renditions or, most frequently, on German and French versifications. In addition to that, the incipient text was adapted to the pre-set tunes associated with individual Psalms. Consequently, the requirements of rhythm and rhyme — both these obtaining in English and those which had influenced the German and French versified Psalms — were prioritised over the fidelity of the rendition. In spite of that, the Scottish Kirk accorded it the status of the liturgical text, and members of the Congregation immediately embraced it, taking the psalms from the churches to their homes and meeting places, so psalm singing became a ubiquitous activity. At the same time, the text of the Scottish Psalter was felt to be imperfect and several attempts at improving it were undertaken, but the ministers demurred. The paper sets out to explain the popularity the Scottish Psalter enjoyed despite its manifold imperfections. I would like to thank Professor Peter Trudgill for invaluable comments on an earlier version of this paper and Professor Jarosław Płuciennik for inspiring me to write it. I am also deeply indebted to the anonymous reviewer of this paper for perspicacious suggestions and precious detailed comments on both major and minor points. I regret that not all suggestions could be appropriately developed due to the space limitations of this paper. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44796 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44795 The Story of the Exodus and the Images of the Promised Land and Heaven in the Poetry of African American Spirituals Ziółek-Sowińska, Małgorzata Płuciennik, Jarosław Since the beginning of slavery blacks discovered in the Bible stories which provided not only narratives and language to delineate the difficulty of being a slave, but also hope for a better future in the afterlife. The Exodus was perceived as the Bible’s main argument that God denounced slavery and would come in a catastrophic event to judge those who mistreated blacks. This article is devoted to the exploration of the biblical figure of Exodus as a recurring trope in selected lyrics of slave spirituals and spirituals recorded by bluesmen. Scholars seem to agree that the Exodus is the migration narrative, but in this article I seek to demonstrate that it may also represent the theme of going on a spiritual journey to the other side in the hereafter or the end of time city the New Jerusalem. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11089/44795 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z