Itun Berria - Elizen Arteko Biblia / New Testament in Basque language / Basque NT / Paperback / Euskal Herriko Elizbarrutiak

Paperback 2014

ISBN: 9788495909770  /  978-8495909770

ISBN-10: 8495909774

PAGES: 490

PUBLISHER: Euskal Herriko Elizbarrutiak

LANGUAGE: Basque / Euskara

Description in Basque:

Elizen Arteko Bibliaren Itun Berria da hemen eskaintzen dena, lagungarri hauek dituela aberasgarri: Sarrera orokorra eta liburu edota gutun bakoitzari egindako sarrerak, Oineko oharrak, Bibli hiztegia, Euskalkien arteko hiztegia, Taula kronologikoa, eta mapetan azaltzen diren Leku-izenen aurkibidea.

English Summary:

Basque language New Testament of the Inter-Ecclesiastical Bible, which is enriched by the following help: General introduction and entries for each book or letter, Footnotes, Bible Dictionary, Dialect Dictionary, Chronological Table, and Index of Place Names on Maps.

Joanes Leizarraga, a Catholic priest who joined the Reformation, translated the New Testament into Basque (1571).

George Borrow translated the Gospel of Luke into Basque in 1838, but the translation were banned for personal sale, with only public libraries being permitted copies.

Jose Antonio Uriarte produced the first complete Bible translation in Gipuzkoan Basque in the mid-19th century, but this was never published. His close colleague, Jean-Pierre Duvoisin, made the first translation which was published (in Lapurdian Basque) in 1859, under the auspices of the philologist Louis Lucien Bonaparte.

The new Elizen Arteko Biblia [eu] was published in 1983 (New Testament) and completed 1994