Decolonising Translated Bibles
The Tragic Erasure of the Vhavenḓa's Concepts of God through the 1936 and 1998 Tshivenḓa Bible Translations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4313844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hulisani Ramantswana (0000-0002-6629-9194, University of South Africa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15010117 |
| OpenAlex | W4390961813 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The Bible translated into South Africa's indigenous languages has a colonial history. For the Vhavenḓa people, the 1936 and 1998 Bible translations are revered as icons that hold a privileged position. However, this paper argues that these two translations should be seen as colonial language tools that do not serve the culture of the Vhavenḓa people. Instead, they can be viewed as weapons against them. These translations distorted the Tshivenḓa language by imposing distorted and foreign concepts of God, thereby rendering the Vhavenḓa people to have been without knowledge of God
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |