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Kuweka Biblia katika Maisha

Swahili version of 'Translating the Bible into Action'

Harriet Hill, Margaret Hill (2020)

Kuweka Biblia katika Maisha (literally, ‘To put the Bible into life’) is a Swahili translation of the well-known Scripture Engagement handbook, Translating the Bible into Action. This book has been translated and published in Tanzania, to use with the local…

RichardDecember 4, 2020

Children

Sunday School Curriculum – Mark’s Gospel

In Swahili, English, and translatable into other languages

Katherine O'Donnell (2018)

This is a simple children's Sunday school curriculum, outlining the Bible passage to use, some key teaching and application points and a memory verse for each lesson. It is hoped that a teacher may use this in conjunction with Mark’s…

RichardJune 28, 2018

Language Issues Research

The Impact of Vernacular Scriptures

Assessing the benefit of local language Scriptures among the bilingual Malila and Nyiha communities of Tanzania

Mark Woodward (2014)

MA dissertation: Bible & Mission, Redcliffe College, UK. Abstract: In many ways the Malila and Nyiha are typical of Tanzania's numerous multilingual communities, where both Swahili and the local language are used as part of everyday life. Given that there…

RichardJuly 17, 2015

Research

Umuhimu wa Biblia: An investigation into how Tanzanian Christians perceive and engage with God’s Word

Katherine O’Donnell (2013)

MA dissertation: Bible & Mission, Redcliffe College. Abstract: This study examines both what Tanzanian Christians think about the Bible and the way they engage with it, through a review of the literature on Bible use in Africa and primary research…

RichardSeptember 10, 2013

Culture Music and Worship Understanding Scripture

Early engagements with the Bible among the Gogo people of Tanzania

Historical and hermeneutical study of ordinary "readers" transactions with the Bible.

Mote Paulo Magomba (2004)

Abstract: This study falls within the area of the Bible in African Christianity, particularly ordinary readers' appropriation of and interpretation of the Bible. It seeks to explore, firstly, the processes of the encounter between the Bible and the indigenous people…

RichardJune 12, 2013

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