The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated into the Burmese, from the Original Greek. And Edited, with Contents of Chapters and References, by Rev. E. A. Stevens.

BIBLE IN ASIA - JUDSON, Adoniram (trans.).

Edité par Rangoon: Published by the American Baptist Missionary Union, at Their Mission Press, 1885

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Second edition, almost as scarce institutionally as the first edition (1871). Of the 5,000 printed, copies survive just at Brown and SOAS; only the British Library has a copy of the first. Judson (1788-1850), one of the first Protestant missionaries active in Burma, completed the first translation of the Bible into Burmese in 1834. He revised his version in 1837, and Edward Abiel Stevens (1814-1886), a fellow missionary, took the significant step three decades later of adding textual apparatus to facilitate scholarly study and missionary work. There are footnotes on nearly every page. Darlow & Moule 2375. Octavo (198 x 128 mm). Text in Burmese, English-language title page. Contemporary tree calf, black label, gilt rules on spine. Some wear, old repair on rear board, pinholes of worming in text, touching the odd reference, a few leaves with losses in bottom-corner margin: very good.

N° de réf. du vendeur 191096

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• Titre: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated into the Burmese, from the Original Greek. And Edited, with Contents of Chapters and References, by Rev. E. A. Stevens.
• Éditeur: Rangoon: Published by the American Baptist Missionary Union, at Their Mission Press, 1885