Early Scriptures of the Gold Coast (Ghana)

by John David Kwamena Ekem

Publisher:

American Bible Society

Overview

Early Scriptures of the Gold Coast (Ghana) is a historically rich and compelling account of African and European missionary translation teams, working in Ghana and Togo, who created orthographies, wrote grammars and dictionaries in the local languages, and undertook vernacular translations of Scriptures. Their aim was to teach the Bible in the mother tongue languages to better communicate the message of Scripture. By dedicating their philological and linguistic skills to Bible translation, the Gold Coast Christians helped to advance a lasting Ghanaian literate tradition.

Key Features

• Explores a compelling account of African and European missionary translation teams.
• Shows their philological and linguistic skills to Bible translation.
• Guides us through a historical account of centuries of the earliest translations.

Product Details

• Title: Early Scriptures of the Gold Coast (Ghana)
• Author: John David Kwamena Ekem
• Publisher: American Bible Society
• Pages: 200
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Resource ID: LLS:ERLYSCPTGLC
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-06-10T23:23:39Z

About John David Kwamena Ekem

John David Kwamena Ekem, is an ordained minister of The Methodist Church Ghana, and has sened as a Translation Consultant of The Bible Society of Ghana. He is currently the Academic Dean of Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, and Director of the Seminary's Institute of Mother-Tongue Biblical Hermeneutics.

Rev. Ekem received an MPhil degree (Study of Religions, with specialization in New Testament Studies, African Life and Thought) from the University of Ghana, Legon in 1987, and a Doctor of Theology degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 1994. He is the author of many scholarly articles and two textbooks, Priesthood in Context (1994, revised in 2009) and New Testament Concepts of Atonement in an African Pluralistic Setting (2005). He has also coauthored a textbook, Essentials of Biblical Greek Morphology − with an Introductory Syntax (2010). He holds membership in the prestigious Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, an international academic body for New Testament Studies. His areas of interest and research are mother-tongue biblical interpretation, New Testament, and African Life and Thought.