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Title:CRUISE 5 WITH REV DR. CHATHA MSANGAAMBE - COMMEMORATING 100 YEARS OF CHICHEWA BIBLE COMMEMORATION
Duration:01:33:28
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Published:14-11-2022
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The program is a conversation with Reverend Dr. Chatha Msangaambe of Dedza Church of Central African Presbyterian-CCAP. He narrates the history of the translation of the Bible into the vernacular which began as early late 1800. Rev David Clement Scott of Blantyre Mission was the first to translate scripture portions into the Chinyanja. In 1893 the gospels were printed and following year the letters of Paul were printed. And in 1896 the entire New Testament had been published into Chichewa. When Scott left the mission in 1898 and transferred to Kenya, the work slowed down. Until then, this was largely the work and initiative of Scott. By 1898, Robert Laws of Livingstonia Mission had also translated the New Testament in Chinyanja. In May 1900, a Bible Translation Commission was formed following a meeting of the missionaries in Mangochi. It consisted of representatives from the Blantyre, Nkhoma, Livingstonia and Zambezi Industrial Mission. The Commission recommended a review of the work done by Scott in order to come up with an improved version of the New Testament which could be used by all the Chinyanja speaking communities, and after that proceed with the entire Bible. Between 1900 and 1903 the progress was very slow. This was because each of the missionaries were also busy with their daily mission work. Therefore, in 1903, Rev William Murray of Nkhoma Mission was assigned to work on the project full time. The major base of his work was on Kaso Hill, not far from the Mvera Mission, a quiet place that was devoted and chosen specifically for the task of translating the Bible. By 1915 the work picked up again and this time Hetherwick and Henry Napier also translated some of the Old Testament books. The work was finished in 1919 and it was only in 1922 that the Buku Lopatulika ndilo Mau a Mulungu (literally “The Holy Book is the Word of God”) was finally printed by the National Bible Society of Scotland. The first print run of 15,500 copies were published and only reached in Malawi in 1923. There was great excitement among thousands of Malawians who came to see the Bible in their mother language for the first time and very soon all the copies were sold such that a reprint was done in 1924.



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