Bible Translation and African Languages
Author: Gosnell L. O. R. Yorke
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
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Author: Gosnell L. O. R. Yorke
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aloo Osotsi Mojola
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1783688246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the fascinating and important story of how God’s Word came to East Africa. Beginning with the pioneering efforts of Krapf and Rebmann, Aloo Osotsi Mojola traces the history of Bible translation in the region from 1844 to the present. He incorporates four decades of personal conversations and interviews, along with extensive research, to provide the first comprehensive account of the translations undertaken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The maps and tables included assist the reader, as does a history of the Swahili language – its standardization, role as lingua franca, and impact on the work of translation. Mojola’s writing is a tribute to those who sacrificed much in their quest to see the word of God accessible to all people, in all places – and the many who continue to sacrifice for the peoples of East Africa. This book is a key contribution to the important and ongoing narrative of how God has met us, and continues to meet us, in our own contexts and our own languages.
Author: Musa W. Dube
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1498295142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is critically important for Bible translation theorists, postcolonial scholars, church leaders, and the general public interested in the history, politics, and nature of Bible translation work in Africa. It is also useful to students of gender studies, political science, biblical studies, and history-of-colonization studies. The book catalogs the major work that has been undertaken by African scholars. This work critiques and contests colonial Bible translation narratives by privileging the importance African oral vitality in rewriting the meaning of biblical texts in the African sociopolitical, political, and cultural contexts.
Author: Napo Poidi
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Published: 2016-08-22
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781908860170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Napo Poidi, linguist andBible translation consultant, issues a clarion callfor solidarity and for the commitment of the Church in Africa tosupport the translation of the Bible and the development of African languages."
Author: Misheck Nyirenda
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1839739150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe translation of Scripture into non-European languages has been an essential undertaking of the modern missionary movement. However, when translators cling to the ideal of scholarly objectivity or fail to interrogate the lenses through which they view Scripture and the world, they risk perpetuating a belief in the West’s political, cultural and epistemological superiority, with dangerous consequences for the good news of the gospel. This study provides detailed historical accounts of the origins of two of Africa’s most revered vernacular Bibles: the Efik Bible of modern-day Nigeria and the Nyanja Bible of Southern Africa. It illustrates the nature and challenges of early missionary translation work, highlighting the impact of particular translation theories and tracing the development of modern approaches. Evaluating Hugh Goldie’s and Robert Law’s translation practices against the interwoven backdrop of imperialism, the modern missionary movement and the Enlightenment’s belief in objectivity, Dr. Misheck Nyirenda demonstrates how the missionaries’ presuppositions often dominated their projects at the expense of African agency and epistemology. Issuing a powerful warning for those involved in the vast ongoing task of translating Scripture into the world’s vernacular languages, Nyirenda reminds us that we must first reckon with our social, cultural and historical embeddedness when seeking to communicate gospel truth across linguistic or cultural barriers.
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Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2017-05-09
Total Pages: 2162
ISBN-13: 1496424719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.
Author: Ernst R. Wendland
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 221
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gerald West
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13: 9004497102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough the arrival of the Bible in Africa has often been a tale of terror, the Bible has become an African book. This volume explores the many ways in which Africans have made the Bible their own. The essays in this book offer a glimpse of the rich resources that constitute Africa's engagement with the Bible. Among the topics are: the historical development of biblical interpretation in Africa, the relationship between African biblical scholarship and scholarship in the West, African resources for reading the Bible, the history and role of vernacular translation in particular African contexts, the ambiguity of the Bible in Africa, the power of the Bible as text and symbol, and the intersections between class, race, gender, and culture in African biblical interpretation. The book also contains an extensive bibliography of African biblical scholarship. In fact, it is one of the most comprehensive collections of African biblical scholarship available in print. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author: Ernst R. Wendland
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip A. Noss
Publisher: Storia e Letteratura
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdited by Philip A. Noss. Sixteen biblical scholars, linguists, theorericians, and translation professionals have collaborated to present an overview of the Bible translation from the time of the Septuagint, the Targums, and the Latin Vulgate through the Reformation and Counter Reformation, and into the present day when mother-tongue speakers have replaced the missionary translators of the colonial era. This is the inaugural volume in a series of monographs. Paper Back, 542 pages.