Ships and oceans, taking soundings and running aground, Paul’s voyage in Acts can pose real challenges for Bible Translators in a land-locked culture. The Burunge team and their colleagues knew it would take excellent words and creative supports to make a complete solution…
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“I am supposed to be the exegetical adviser,” said Paul (the Burunge team’s Translation Advisor), “but they probably understand the culture and meaning of Ruth much better than me.” One issue that surfaced during a recent revision was over how to translate the term ‘redeemer’…
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For years, we made plans to create these audio recordings, but we needed help from specialists. But God’s plans were higher than ours. If we had done it earlier like we planned, Mark’s Gospel would not have been ready…
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Until recently, the Zinza people of Tanzania were without any Scripture in their language. They recently received and dedicated, with great celebration, the Zinza book of Genesis: Echitabu cho Kubanza, or “The Book of the Beginning”…
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The sound system began to fill the air with Burunge songs. The dedication was held on the football field which is right next to the weekly market location, so throughout the day many people passing by came over to find out what was happening. Pastor Emmanuel Doe opened the event by gathering the crowd to perform a traditional dance…
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Like most East African languages, Mbugwe writing will use a Roman alphabet. But in the translation team’s first ‘orthography’ workshop, participants discovered their language cannot be written with just the five vowels they know from Swahili…
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Sandawe homesteads are so spread out, it’s difficult to spread word about the materials we are producing in the local language. So I try to go where the people are…
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Many Sandawe gathered under the big baobab tree, to listen to God’s word. Pastors from surrounding villages (several denominations) preached from newly translated portions of Sandawe Scripture…
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It was an encouraging week of listening to new Sandawe songs, and also building relationships…
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