by a
team of Yoruba scholars, the project is said to have taken 15 years to
complete.
General
Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry Pastor William Kumuyi has
published a Yoruba Bible concordance called Bibeli Mimo Atoka.
Kumuyi’s Bibeli
Mimo Atoka was published by the Bible Society of Nigeria.
The church
said in a broadcast that the new scripture is “one of the most reliable and
readable Bibles” for personal study and teaching.
It further
said: “Bibeli Mimo Atoka offers the most literally accurate translation from
the original while keeping the integrity of the Bible.
“This new
version takes care of changes that have occurred over time in the meaning of
some expressions found in ancient Yoruba and makes the Bible more
comprehensible and relevant to today’s readers.”
Kumuyi who
clocked 79 last June said the Bible was specially prepared, adding that “it is
true to the original with cross-references.”
The Deeper
Life church leader urged Christian leaders and ministers to start using it,
assuring that the major doctrines of the scriptures were highlighted.
Notably, the
first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria Samuel Ajayi Crowther is credited to
have made the first translation of the Bible to Yoruba.
In the 1880s,
Crowther had begun to work in languages other than Yoruba, but he continued to
supervise the translation of the Yoruba Bible (Bibeli Mimọ), which was
completed in the mid-1880s, a few years before his death.
He also
translated the Anglican Book of Common Prayer into Yoruba.
Crowther died
on December 31, 1891 and was buried at Ajele Cemetery in Lagos.
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