Bible Translation in Anglophone Africa and her Diaspora

A Postcolonialist Agenda

Bibliographic Data

ID20209641
AuthorsGosnell Yorke, Gosnell L Yorke (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume2
Issue2
Pages153-166
Publication date2004-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueBlack Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-9948 • E-ISSN: 1743-1670
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1558/blth.2.2.153.36034
OpenAlexW2049796324
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Bible translation in Anglophone Africa and her Diaspora, as spearheaded by the worldwide United Bible Societies, is an integral part of a much larger whole. In this more narrowly focused article, the point being made is essentially twofold, namely: (1) that Bible translation has a long and strong tradition in Africa going back to the inter-testamental translation in Alexandria, Egypt, of the Hebrew Bible and other cognate writings into Hellenistic Greek, the lingua franca of the day. This was followed by the subsequent proliferation of translation into various indigenous African languages especially in the wake of the missionary movement of the late eighteenth century and extending to the present. (2) That Bible translation, to a large extent, is ideologically driven. We are being made particularly mindful of this ‘fact of life’ especially in light of the postcolonial context within which Africa and her Diaspora now find themselves. In addition, this renders permissible the call for appropriately prepared translations of the Bible intended for ‘Afro-consumption’

Art · Biblical studies · Diaspora · Hebrew Bible · Ideology · Indigenous · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

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