BIBLICAL NUMINOUS HYMNS: LINGUISTIC ASPECT
The article dwells upon structural-semantic properties of ancient hymns on the material of King James Bible. The author postulates the necessity to expand a three component hymn structure by means of numinousness. It is shown that numinous emotions represented in biblical hymns are primarily constituents of an emotional cluster ‘Mysterium tremendum’ (awe, fear) and an emotional cluster ‘Mysterium fascinans’ (fascination, wonder, joy), an emotion of creature-consciousness being poorly depicted.