Native American Bible
Well I think I have decided to put to use some of my Bible education to a good use by translating the Bible into a paraphrased Native American translation of the Bible.
A friend of mine recently finished up his work on developing a Bible for those in the military. He has been a military chaplain for most of his life and was able to put together his knowledge of the every-day military lingo with the Word of God.
While it was not the inspiration for my attempt, I think it gives me a bit of home that it is at least possible!
It will be a huge time commitment for me and will probably take years - if it would even be something I could ever finish.
The idea will not be to theologize a new translation but rather to make a paraphrased translation.
Take for example this initial work I did a few years ago when I first got the idea:
And here is a piece of work by a lady by the name of "Margaret Primrose" who has done a bit of what I am thinking of doing:
I think what I am going to need to do is first sit-down and build a type of word-relations dictionary, so it will be easier to remain consistent in the re-paraphrasing of a lot of the terminology that will be getting rephrased. This could be a challenge in and of itself of course. What one tribe terms one way another tribe terms another way. So some sort of generalization is going to have to take place at some level.
(update: 11-29-2009 - i think i have come up with a proper way to do this, but i am going to have to try to come into the possession of a database dump of the entire bible in a word-by-word dump. from there i can assign each individual word a value and than translate each valued word based upon its usage)
After that I think it will just be a matter of lots and lots of time and effort and more re-reading than I have ever done in my life.
I think I might need some help with this - lol - anybody up for some collaborating work on a Native American Paraphrased Bible?
For Christ's Ministry,
John B. Abela
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