Global Bible: British and German Bible Societies Translating Colonialism, 1800-1914.

全球圣经项目(GloBil)旨在批判性地调查英国和德国对全球圣经创作的贡献，即试图将基督教经文翻译成世界所有语言。到二十世纪初，圣经的某些部分已被翻译成大约1000种语言，包括许多以前没有书面形式的语言。这一惊人的成就在文化上相当于登月，也就是绘制人类基因组图，并一直延续到今天。作为几十年艰苦劳动的结果，人们对全球多数语言的了解在很大程度上依赖于殖民时代土著翻译人员和传教士语言学家的工作。然而，这些关键知识中的大部分仍然隐藏在宗教档案中。GloBil将解锁德国和英国圣经社会的档案，揭示全球圣经运动的历史及其对全球语言的发现。为了提供重点和方向，GloBil将在三个地理位置不同的地区探索圣经翻译，即北极、大洋洲和澳大利亚以及西非。这些地区意义重大，因为它们展示了英国和德国殖民者迁入的不同边界，以及与独特和独特的语言和民族相遇的范围。GloBil试图描绘这三个地区的全球圣经运动，揭示土著翻译家和福音传教士的贡献，以及英国和德国圣经社团的重大贡献。圣经社团是英国和德国软实力在国内外传播的关键，尽管到目前为止，他们的重要性和全球重要性几乎没有得到承认。在英国，英国和外国圣经协会(BFBS)是一个文化权力机构，为向世界各国人民传播、出版和分发圣经提供资金。BFBS与其他圣经协会和该领域的许多传教士协会合作，共同努力为世界语言提供书面形式，首先是那些处于殖民扩张前沿的接触区的语言。在任何时候，它都得到了德国社会的支持，他们拥有资金、语言专业知识以及拥有共同福音派和虔诚世界观的传教士和人员。虽然传教运动和德国传教士对英国传教社会的贡献相对较好，但GloBil将揭示英德合作在资助、出版和传播全球圣经知识方面的重要性。研究分为六个工作包，每个工作包都有一个专门的团队，拥有访问德国和英国的圣经社会和传教记录所需的语言和研究技能。工作包包括全球多数派和欧洲的学者和艺术家，他们将合作解决研究问题。该项目致力于将土著语言的殖民知识送回国内。它将通过创新地介绍研究成果、与土著学者和艺术家以及殖民圣经语言社区的当代继承人合作来实现这一目标。通过在不同的媒体上创造广泛的产出，它将参与并影响到学术界以外的领域。这些成果包括：1.GloBil数据库，其中将包括全球圣经运动地图；2.GloBil会议，来自非洲、大洋洲、英国和德国，包括艺术家和学者；3.GloBil展览，将由明斯特圣经博物馆主办，将编制一份目录，作为对该项目的合作贡献。展览将提供一个论坛，供展出的圣经所服务的社区进行后殖民反思，展示殖民时代圣经翻译的接受和后世。

The Global Bible project (GloBil) aims to critically investigate British and German contributions to the creation of a global bible, that is the attempt to translate Christian scripture into all the languages of the world. By early in the twentieth century, some portion of the bible had been translated into approximately 1000 languages, including many with no previous written form. This astonishing achievement was the cultural equivalent of the moon landing, or the mapping of the human genome, and continues to the present day. As a result of decades of arduous labour, much of what is known about global majority languages relies on the work of Indigenous translators and missionary linguists from the colonial era. Yet much of this critical knowledge remains obscured in religious archives.GloBil will unlock the archives of German and British bible societies, uncovering the history of the global bible movement and its discovery of global languages. To provide focus and direction, GloBil will explore bible translation in three geographically diverse regions, namely the Arctic, Oceania and Australia, and West Africa. These regions are significant because they illustrate the different frontiers into which British and German colonisers were moving and the range of encounters with unique and distinctive languages and peoples. GloBil seeks to delineate the global bible movement in these three regions, uncovering the contribution of Indigenous translators and evangelists, and the significant contribution of British and German bible societies.Bible societies were key to the dissemination of British and German soft power, both at home and abroad, though their significance and global importance has, until now, received little recognition. In the UK, the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS) was a cultural power house which funded the dissemination, publication and distribution of bibles to the peoples of the world. The BFBS worked in partnership with other bible societies and a host of missionary societies in the field, who together sought to give written form to the languages of the world, beginning with those in contact zones at the leading edge of colonial expansion. At every point, it was supported by German societies, with funds, linguistic expertise and missionaries and personnel who shared a common evangelical and pietistic world view. While the missionary movement and the contribution of German missionaries to British missionary societies is relatively well understood, GloBil will uncover the significance of Anglo-German collaboration to funding, publishing and disseminating global bible knowledge.Research has been divided into six work packages, each with a dedicated team with the linguistic and research skills required to access bible society and missionary records in Germany and the UK. Work packages includes both global majority and European-based scholars and artists who will collaborate in tackling the research questions. The project is committed to foregrounding the repatriation of colonial knowledge of Indigenous languages. It will achieve this through innovative presentation of research results, collaboration with Indigenous scholars and artists and contemporary heirs to colonial bible language communities. By creating a wide range of outputs in different media, it will engage and reach beyond the academic community. These outputs include: 1. The GloBil database, which will include the map of the Global Bible movement, 2. the GloBil conference, with contributions from Africa, Oceania, the UK and Germany including artists and academics and 3. the GloBil exhibition, which will be hosted by the Bible Museum Münster, who will produce a catalogue as a partner contribution to the project. The exhibition will provide a forum for post-colonial reflection by communities served by the bibles exhibited, demonstrating the reception and afterlives of bible translations from the colonial era.