volume 11, issue 2, 2019, pages 136-148

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64438/sbsDUVB2804
Published online: 2019-12-01
Published in print: 2019-12-30

Abstract:The present note highlights Blasius Aponi’s Latin paraphrase of the 150 psalms, a forgotten masterpiece of Slovak Neo-Latin literature, published in 1624. On account of its metrical richness, the work can be said to represent a Central European parallel to George Buchanan’s rendering of the psalms into Neo-Latin verse. The author draws on the concept of inculturation of faith which, as he suggests, could be effectively used to provide meaningful and authentic interpretation of Neo-Latin biblical paraphrases.