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Bible-a-Month Club project for February 2012
Zulu Bible Translation
Zulu is the largest language group in South Africa. It is the mother tongue of more than 10 million South Africans. The Bible has already been available in Zulu for over a century, but it is a dynamic language which is continually developing.
Changes in the language have led to younger Zulu speakers especially no longer being able to understand everything in the existing Bible because it is not always written in the way Zulu is used today. The science of translation, Bible translation in particular, has also developed and the knowledge of the source texts has expanded a great deal.
These factors all contributed to the churches who use the Zulu Bible requesting the Bible Society to begin a new translation. The work on this translation began in August 2009.
A publication with proof translations of parts of Genesis, Job, Proverbs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Romans and 2 Corinthians was recently published. Readers can submit feedback and in this way assist the translators.
The translators are working long hours to ensure that a good, understandable translation of the complete Bible in contemporary Zulu will be available as soon as possible.
R837 016 is needed for the work to continue in 2012.
Pray for:
- churches and mission organisations who distribute the Bible through outreach programmes
- each person who will receive one of these outreach Bibles.
