Aleksei Borisov - New understading.
Preface to an approach to studying ancient texts based on new approaches
Modern scholarship employs numerous methods for translating and understanding ancient texts. In addition to direct translations based on word recognition and grammar, many authors offer other meanings, ranging from literal to allegorical.
Thus, we see that there is more than one way to extract the meaning of any given ancient text. The existence of such methods is justified by the very antiquity of the sources, dating back to a time when modern science did not yet exist; civilizations had a different social organization.
Due to the differences in theories and approaches, authors obtain divergent results, which, in the long run, at a distance from the beginning of the text, leads to difficulties in translating and understanding subsequent fragments that are connected into a coherent whole. The ease of a particular method at the initial stage can result in greater difficulties at subsequent stages and, ultimately, lead to distortion of the text as a whole. This is precisely why there are numerous methods and approaches that complement and refine the results to form a complete whole.
Modern natural science uses formal languages ​​for research and study, complemented by visual ones (graphs, formulas, diagrams, images), creating an "objective" and precise method of description. It is noteworthy that this approach enables science to make breakthroughs in the study of reality and its transformation, as well as social adaptation. Historically, we can trace the steady, rapid progress since society's transition to this path of existence.
In a compressed historical timeframe, humans have achieved unprecedented results, unimaginable to ancient people. While the fantasy of yesterday's authors has come true today, for earlier times it was only a dream. Ancient times itself was monotonous and stable in technology and development, which scientific methods rapidly advanced.
In this regard, it is preferable to apply these methods to the study and extraction of meaning from ancient texts. Of course, by using and relying on the material studied using existing methods and in agreement with them, I believe we can, by applying a new principle, construct a complete and coherent picture of the text of an ancient author.