Sydenstrickers Chinese New Testament

Sydenstrickers Chinese New Testament

Author: Sydenstricker and Zhu Baohui

Year: 1929

Sydenstrickers Chinese New Testament [...] the Sydenstrickers were poorer still because of the great passion of Absalom’s life, second only to conversion itself, which was his translation of the New Testament into the Chinese vernacular. He had been a member of the official committee set up in Shanghai in 1890 to produce a revised Mandarin version of the Bible, but he resigned or was pushed off at the committee’s first working meeting the following summer. A natural linguist himself, he never concealed his opinion of other translators’ work as misguided, inept, or inaccurate. The year before Pearl was born he decided to produce an unauthorized rival edition and publish it in installments himself, an enterprise that drained his wife’s household budget for the next three decades. [...] his obstinate insistence on educating his Chinese staff (the conventional view was that teaching the natives too much was asking for trouble), and his pointblank refusal to fall in with official policy of dividing the available territory among competing Christian denominations in much the same way as the European powers apportioned their land grabs. What infuriated his fellows perhaps more than anythin