The first Russian «Encyclopedic Dictionary of Biblical Phrases»: its objectives and ways of their achievement

• Main Author: K N Dubrovina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2010-12-01
• Series: Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
• Subjects: библейское выражение; библейский оборот; библейский фразеологизм (БФ) русского языка; библеизм; словари библеизмов; метафора; символ; аллегория
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/view/9702
• ISSN: 2312-9182; 2312-9212

The article deals with the aims and objectives of «Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Biblical Phrases» and establishes the base of its acute necessity. The article considers the ways of fulfilling these special tasks and cites examples of similarities and peculiarities of modern Russian biblical expressions and their prototypes found in the Bible.