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**List: Yoruba Ministry
the Bible ( the Bible )
Yoruba...
"Yoruba, with more than 3 million speakers, is the
most widely
spoken language of the Western Region of Nigeria. There are
an additional 100,000 speakers in adjacent areas of Dahomey,
where the Yoruba are sometimes called Nago. Although there
are numerous Yoruba dialects in use, the Oyo dialect has become
the standard literary Yoruba usage.
The story of the Yoruba Bible begins with a slave raid in Osogun,
Nigeria, in 1821. One of the boys carried away to be shipped to
the New World was a Yoruba lad named Ajayi. Luckily the
slave ship was intercepted at sea by an English naval vessel, and
Ajayi was eventually put ashore in Freetown, more than 1,000
miles from home. Remaining in Freetown, he was adopted by
Christians and grew up to attend an English seminary and to
nurture the dream that he would return to and evangelize his
own people, the Yoruba. This dedicated Christian, who had
been baptized Samuel Ajayi
Crowther, did indeed return
to the
Yoruba. He became the first Bishop of Niger, and under his
supervision the entire Yoruba Bible was translated. That Bible
is unique in being the only first Bible translation in a major
African language carried out by local Christians." "--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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**File: Yoruba Bible History (3)--1860
S. Bagster [Info only: Yarriba.]
"First publication, a
primer with Scripture selections in
1848, lo-
cally printed; tr. by Samuel Adjai Crowther,
of the CMS, an ex-slave who later became
Bishop of the Niger."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only]
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"1850 Romans 1851 Luke
Acts James 1, 2 Peter
Church MS, London
1853 Genesis Matthew 1854 Exodus
Psalms
1856 Proverbs Ecclesiastes Luke Acts
Romans
James 1, 2 Peter (revised) BFBS, London
Translated and revised by Samuel A. Crowther."--1000 Tongues,
1972 [Info only]
"St. Matthew’s Gospel,
1853; tr. by Crowther
and Thomas King, a native who later became a
CMS my."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only]
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"1857 John 1859 Daniel
Mark 1861 John (revised)
1861-1862 1 Corinthians-Hebrews 1 John-Revelation
BFBS, London
Translated and revised by Thomas King, a Yoruba Christian, and S. A.
Crowther."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
"New Testament, by the
publication of Philippians, Hebrews; the Epistles of St. John and of St.
Jude and Revelation, 1862; all tr. by Crowther and some edited by J. F.
Schön."--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only]
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"1865 New Testament (revised) BFBS,
London
A revision of the Crowther and King text, prepared by Charles A.
Gollmar, CMS. It was further edited and corrected in BFBS editions
of 1871, by C. A. Gollmar; and 1879, by David Hinderer."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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YORUBA--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only: "1879" John 3:14-19a
unknown.]
"1867 Genesis-
Ruth 1884 1 Samuel-Malachi BFBS,
London
Translated by a committee of African Christians and my.
advisers, formed to assist Samuel Crowther with the
translation of the
O.T. Tentative editions of several O.T. Books were issued during
1878-1883. After 1880 Adolphus Mann, CMS, became chief
translator."--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only: ?]
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"1887-1890 Bible (revised) BFBS,
London
A revision prepared under the supervision of Nathaniel Johnson, a
Yoruba pastor, and J. B. Wood, CMS."--1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only: ?]
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"1920 Matthew 1930 Bible
(N.T. revised) BFBS, London
A revision prepared by a committee of Yorubas, including N. Johnson,
I. Oluwole, J. A. Cole, A. W. Howells, T. A. J. Ogunbiyi, H. V. E.
Johnson, C. E. O. Doherty, S. M. Abiodun, and J. A. Leigh."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only: ?]
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YORUBA--1000 Tongues, 1972 [Info only: "1950" Mark 1:2 incorrect
(Isaiah).]
"1957 New Testament BFBS, London
A corrected edition prepared by S. Kale and a committee. An
edition
with further corrections, prepared by John Hargreaves, CMS, and a
committee, was published by the BFBS in 1959."--1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only: ?]
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"1960 Genesis CMS Bookshop, Lagos
Revised by the Yoruba Bible Revision Committee, under the super-
vision of S. C. Phillips and P. V. Adebiyi."--1000 Tongues, 1972
[Info only: ?]
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