The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible Yuchi In The Transit of Empire

In The Transit of Empire

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Freedmen who walked the Trail of Tears from Mississippi to Oklahoma

The New Voice of God: Language, Worldview, and the Cherokee Bible Yuchi In The Transit of EmpireFor Christian European missionaries among the Cherokees at the turn of the eighteenth century, translating the Bible meant wrestling with the extreme structural differences between Cherokee and English. The New Voice of God reveals how these linguistic differences encoded basic predispositions and orientations toward the physical, spiritual, and social worlds and how their translation in turn encodes the profound linguistic and cultural exchange