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**List: Efik Ministry
the Bible ( the Bible )
Efik...
"Efik is spoken with tribal dialectal differences
by more than
1.2 million people in Calabar Province of Nigeria. Numerous
tribes, collectively known as Ibibio (Anang, Andone, Eket,
Enyong, and Efik) speak related dialects, of which Efik is the
accepted literary form and the one used in education. The
Ibibio tongues form a dialect cluster within the Benue-Congo
language group. Ogoni is a related
language.
The Efik New Testament, the first Testament to be published in
an African language by the National Bible Society of Scotland,
was unusual in that it was bound with the Book of
Genesis.
The story behind this interesting publication has often been
recounted. When the recently freed slaves of the West Indies
heard that Scriptures were being prepared for the Calabar
region, where most of the Jamaican slaves and their forebears
had been taken into bondage, it was decided that they would
contribute to the evangelization of their African kinsmen. Thus,
out of their penury, these freedmen saved enough to finance the
translation and printing of the Efix Genesis. The Efik Old
Testament appeared in 1868, the first complete Bible in a lan-
guage of Nigeria and the sixth in an African tongue." --1000 Tongues,
1972 [Info only]
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"1850 Jonah? 1852 John
D. Jerdan, Dalkeith
1857 Romans 1858 John (revised) 1 John
S. & T. Dunn, Glasgow
1862 New Testament NBSS, Edinburgh
1862 Genesis Dunn & Wright, Glasgow
1866 Psalms Proverbs NBSS, Edinburgh
Translated by William Anderson, Hugh Goldie, and Hope M.
Waddell, United Presbyterian
Mission, assisted by Aye Eyo and
others." --1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1868 Old Testament NBSS, Edinburgh
Translated by Alexander Robb, Scottish my., aided by Esien
Esien and other African informants."--1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only]
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"New version, NBSS, 1910;
prepared by the Rev. J. T. Dean and
A. Cruickshank and a committee of natives and mies. Bible, 1912.
CP: NBSS."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only]
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EFIK--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only: "1925" John 3:11-18 unknown.]
"1910 New Testament NBSS, Edinburgh
Translated by J. T. Dean and Alexander Cruikshank."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1947 New Testament 1952
Bible NBSS, Edinburgh
A revision in new orthodoxy, prepared by J. T. Dean."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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EFIK--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only: "1962" Mark 1:2 incorrect
(prophet Isaiah).]
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