Sowing the word : the cultural impact of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1804-2004 / edited by Stephen Batalden, Kathleen Cann and John Dean.

Contributor(s): Batalden, Stephen K | Cann, Kathleen | Dean, John, 1936-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Bible in the modern worldPublication details: Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix, c2004. Description: xii, 380 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781905048656 (pbk.)Subject(s): British and Foreign Bible Society -- History | Bible -- Publication and distribution -- Societies, etcDDC classification: 220.0601
Contents:
The archives of the British and Foreign Bible Society / Kathleen Cann -- The Bible Society and the book trade / Leslie Howsam -- Women and the Bible Society / Roger Martin -- Forgotten labours : women's Bible work and the BFBS / Sarah Lane -- "Without note or comment" : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Roger Steer -- London Bible House in the 1950s : an illustrated reminiscence / John Dean -- John Hill and the early attempt to study a West African language / Patricia Mirrlees -- Anonymous Bible translators : native literati and the translation of the Bible into Chinese, 1807-1907 / Thor Strandenaes -- Problems in translating the Bible into Manchu : observations on Louis Poirot's Old Testament / Erling von Mende -- The BFBS Petersburg agency and Russian Biblical translation, 1856-1875 / Stephen Batalden -- Bishop Cassian's BFBS-sponsored Russian translation of the New Testament / Sergei Ovsiannikov -- Minority language Biblical translation work in Russia : then and now / David Clark -- Enlightening "a poor, oppressed, and darkened nation" : some early activities of the BFBS in the Levant / Richard Clogg -- The Bible Society's south Slavic Bible in the Balkan maelstrom / Peter Kuzmič -- Robert Pinkerton : principal agent of the BFBS in the kingdoms of Germany / Wayne Detzler -- Obedience and disobedience : George Borrow's idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible Society / Ann Ridler -- The Bible in Spain and Gibraltar / Sue Jackson -- The BFBS and native language literature in nineteenth-century Canada / Joyce Banks -- Sowing by sea : empowering seafarers with the Gospel / Roald Kverndal -- Appendix : A summary catalogue of the BFBS archives / Kathleen Cann.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The archives of the British and Foreign Bible Society / Kathleen Cann -- The Bible Society and the book trade / Leslie Howsam -- Women and the Bible Society / Roger Martin -- Forgotten labours : women's Bible work and the BFBS / Sarah Lane -- "Without note or comment" : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / Roger Steer -- London Bible House in the 1950s : an illustrated reminiscence / John Dean -- John Hill and the early attempt to study a West African language / Patricia Mirrlees -- Anonymous Bible translators : native literati and the translation of the Bible into Chinese, 1807-1907 / Thor Strandenaes -- Problems in translating the Bible into Manchu : observations on Louis Poirot's Old Testament / Erling von Mende -- The BFBS Petersburg agency and Russian Biblical translation, 1856-1875 / Stephen Batalden -- Bishop Cassian's BFBS-sponsored Russian translation of the New Testament / Sergei Ovsiannikov -- Minority language Biblical translation work in Russia : then and now / David Clark -- Enlightening "a poor, oppressed, and darkened nation" : some early activities of the BFBS in the Levant / Richard Clogg -- The Bible Society's south Slavic Bible in the Balkan maelstrom / Peter Kuzmič -- Robert Pinkerton : principal agent of the BFBS in the kingdoms of Germany / Wayne Detzler -- Obedience and disobedience : George Borrow's idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible Society / Ann Ridler -- The Bible in Spain and Gibraltar / Sue Jackson -- The BFBS and native language literature in nineteenth-century Canada / Joyce Banks -- Sowing by sea : empowering seafarers with the Gospel / Roald Kverndal -- Appendix : A summary catalogue of the BFBS archives / Kathleen Cann.

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