Date: Tue, 3 Jan 1995 09:07:29 EST

From: Wayne Glowka wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Gullah Bible



I've been off the list for a couple of weeks and may have missed a previous

posting, but while I was paging through a Presbyterian newsletter the other

night at an in-law's house, I saw a notice for the "first complete book of

the Bible" printed in Gullah by the American Bible Society. The Gospel of

Luke is rendered in the notice as "De Good Nyews Bout Jedus Christ Wa Luke

Write."



I have found comparisons of Bible translations very helpful in HEL classes

and could use selections from such a Bible for illustrative purposes. Has

anyone seen this Bible? How authentic is its Gullah? I have been very shy

in regard to examples of Gullah ever since I heard Sali speak about

unauthentic Gullah some twelve or thirteen years ago.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Director of Research and Graduate Student Services

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu

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