A Bible translator’s tribute: celebrating the life of Professor Lamin Sanneh: missions, Bible translation, and the Vernacular
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[He was the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School, Professor of History at Yale University, and Director of the Project on Religious Freedom and Society in Africa at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
He was an extraordinarily gifted African scholar. He became a leading historian in the study of World Christianity, missions, and the little understood
place of the local vernacular in Bible translation and its cultural implications. He provided a radical revision of and challenge to the received understanding among professional historians as to the role of Western missions, particularly in Africa.]
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