GREETING WITH A HOLY KISS: A STUDY OF 1 THESSALONIANS 5:26 IN SOME GHANAIAN MOTHERTONGUE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE

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  • Jonathan E. T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2014.v10n10p%25p

Abstract

There seem to be translation and interpretation challenges facing mother-tongue readers of the Bible in their cultural settings. One of such cultural issues is the translation of 1Thess 5:26 in some Ghanaian mother-tongue Bibles which borders on the mode of greeting among Christians. This paper is a study of the 1 Thess 5:26 in the Greek New Testament and 20 Ghanaian mother-tongue translations of the text in six southern Ghanaian languages. The paper argues that greeting with a “holy kiss,†in 1Thess 5:26 which most of the Ghanaian mother-tongue translations seem to promote is not Ghana/African, and thus the verse should be retranslated to reflect Ghanaian culture.

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Published

2014-09-10

How to Cite

Kuwornu-Adjaottor, J. E. T. (2014). GREETING WITH A HOLY KISS: A STUDY OF 1 THESSALONIANS 5:26 IN SOME GHANAIAN MOTHERTONGUE TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 10(10). https://doi.org/10.19044/esj.2014.v10n10p%p

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ESJ August 2014 /SPECIAL/ Edition

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