The Story of the Translation of the Bible into Tigre (1877-1988)

The Story of the Translation of the Bible into Tigre (1877-1988) by SENAI W. Andemariam

قصة  ترجمة الكتاب المقدس إلى التقراية  ١٨٧٧ ـ ١٩٨٨

استغرقت العملية كلها ١١١ عاما لإكمال الترجمة

 According to the author, the whole process took a total of 111 years to complete

Ǝm Kullu, meaning ‘mother of all’ in Tǝgre, was the name of the station from which major scriptural and missionary works of the Swedish Evangelical Mission (SEM) originated. The name “Ǝm Kullu” is often transcribed in many European sources as Menkullu or Moncullo. Professor Adolf Kolmodin, the Director of the SEM who visited the Ǝm Kullu station in October 1908, called the station the ‘Mother of our East African Mission'

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