| Benjamin has his plate full these days. On the unfoldingWord side, he’s reviewing the work of several new content writers. That has him looking at Ecclesiastes, Job, and Isaiah. This week (Aug 8-13) Benjamin also has meetings with the unfoldingWord team in Orlando. Pray for a fruitful time of focusing vision, hammering out issues that can be best talked out in-person, and in-person bonding and team-building.
On the Wycliffe consultant training side, he has been diving into preparations for working with the Ron language in Nigeria. This means reading the previous team’s notes on the Ron translation of Ruth and Jonah to gain a feel for the language, the best way to address questions in notes to the team, and what sorts of issues might come up in translating the Old Testament. He has most enjoyed the linguistics part of this work, so recently he picked up a book describing the Ron language from the university here. Unfortunately, it was written in German and he hasn’t really done any German study since high school … so he found a way to get some digital help reading it. He hopes that will help him be better equipped to help the team with their translation. He also has an assignment to research the denominations and textual traditions of Nigeria. |
