35.3248, Books: The Colonial Bible in Australia: Carey (2024)

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Date: 14-Nov-2024
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: The Colonial Bible in Australia: Carey (2024)


Title: The Colonial Bible in Australia
Subtitle: Scripture translations by Biraban and Lancelot Threlkeld,
1825-1859
Series Title: History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/479

Author: Hilary M. Carey
eBook: ISBN: 978-3-96110-486-4 Pages: 260 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

This book provides an extended introduction to the scripture
translations of Biraban, an Awabakal man, and the missionary Lancelot
Threlkeld. It examines Threlkeld’s linguistic field work in Raiatea
prior to coming to New South Wales. It places the translations he
undertook in the context of Australian missionary linguistics and the
rapid advance of the settler frontier, for which he was a key
eyewitness. It analyses the motivation and collaboration between
Biraban and Threlkeld in the light of discoveries of new manuscripts,
including that of the Gospel of St Matthew, as well as Threlkeld’s
personal diary, neither of which have previously been analysed. The
review includes a linguistic and ethnographic analysis of the complete
corpus of Biraban and Threlkeld’s collaboration. It includes a
complete list of the Threlkeld manuscripts and the many printed
editions, including those available online. For historical purposes,
it includes a copy of the unique standalone edition of the Gospel of
Saint Luke, presented by the editor, James Fraser, to the British and
Foreign Bible Society. The original is now in Cambridge University
Library. It also includes a full digitisation of Threlkeld’s autograph
manuscript, illuminated by Annie Layard, in Auckland City Library.

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Australian

Written In: English (eng)



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