The translation of the Bible into Chinese : the origin and unique authority of the Union version /

A history of the translation of the Bible into Chinese, this book tells a fascinating story beginning with Western missionaries working closely with Chinese assistants. They struggled for one hundred years to produce a version that would meet the needs of a growing Chinese church, succeeding in 1919...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peng, Ann Cui'an (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2021]
Series:Studies in Chinese christianity.
Subjects:
Bible. > Chinese. > He he ben.
Bible > Translating > China > History.
Bible > Versions.
Bible > Traduction > Chine > Histoire.
Bible.
China.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: A historical survey of chinese Bible translation. The beginnings of chinese bible translation
  • The early protestant translations
  • The union version project
  • Part II: the evolution of the Mandarin union version. Translations
  • Revisions
  • Part III: probing the authority of the union version and its challenges. Unique significance
  • Contemporary challenges
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: comparison of the chinese Bible contents of Protestant and Roman catholic
  • Appendix 2: Three executive committees of the union version project
  • Appendix 3: protestant chinese bible translation in three stages
  • Appendix 4: a list of chinese assistants in the history of chinese protestant missionary Bible translation
  • Appendix 5: questionnaire of chinese Bible readers
  • Appendix 6: a list of union versions translators with their chinese names

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