‏Rendering euphemistic ברך ‘bless’ in the Translation of Job in the Vilnius Florilegium 262

The paper deals with the choices made by the late fifteenth-century Jewish translator of the Book of Job into Ruthenian in rendering the euphemistic instances of the verb ‘bless’ when the opposite ‘curse’ is intended. The examples from the sixteenth-century copy of the Vilnius Florilegium F-19 262 are compared with the Hebrew original, the 1492 Gennadij Bible and, when available, with the Old Slavonic Prophetologium. The choices appear to follow from the Jewish exegetical tradition.