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Summary: Making the WALK Simple
Review: Da Jesus Book is great for everyone. It brakes the Word of the Lord down on a level that makes it so easy to understand. The book is written in a Hawaiian dialect, but anyone can enjoy the book. It makes a great companion to your usual Bible. I would recommend using this book as a study guide--it is especially helpful to guide in understanding the usual tranlation. Da Jesus Book is a must for every Christian!
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Summary: Making the WALK Simple
Review: Da Jesus Book is great for everyone. It brakes the Word of the Lord down on a level that makes it so easy to understand. The book is written in a Hawaiian dialect, but anyone can enjoy the book. It makes a great companion to your usual Bible. I would recommend using this book as a study guide--it is especially helpful to guide in understanding the usual tranlation. Da Jesus Book is a must for every Christian!
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Summary: Much More Than "Pidgin Feed."
Review: I read this book on three levels because of (a) my marriage of 45 years to a Polynesian woman from Hawaii, (b) my years as a Christian missionary, and (c) my years teaching linguistics. The New Testament in Hawaii Pidgin might at first be misperceived as ethnic humor, but this is a serious project of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, hardly tongue-in-cheek dudes. I found my copy at the nonfacetious Univ. of Hawaii bookstore, where I presented it to two Polynesian cashiers for their opinions. Both reacted with enthusiasm, saying that it was a Bible they could better relate to emotionally, though they also spoke excellent English. It's fun to read, and though I've read the Bible in other languages, I gained A LOT of insight from this disarmingly direct dialect. The spelling reflects pronunciation; "special" is "spesho," "everything" is "erryting," etc. "Jesus chose his 12 apostles" becomes "Jesus ben pick his 12 spesho guys."Da Wycliffe Translayta guys didn't just cobble it together by "talking funny." Da tranlata guys wen make Da Jesus Book wit local kine peopo. Wuz 26 local peopo dat stay talk Pidgin from small keed time, dat do um. Dey make shua erryting mean da same ting jalike da way da peopo wen write down da Bible firs time. Da main translayta guys, dey da ones dat talk Pidgin all da time, cuz dey know wass da bestes way fo say stuffs so all da local peopo goin undastan. Da team check erryting five o six time, an use all kine commentary books fo make shua da meaning stay okay. Dey use da heavy kine Pidgin from country side, cuz dis book fo da people dat talk Pidgin all da time an English onny litto bit. Also too, fo plenny peopo who onny talk Pidgin, dis way mo bettah fo undastan. Bumbye, going get all Da Jesus Book on CD so can lissen da whole ting. You can almos hea da kine language dat da regula peopo talk erryday as you read this book even silently. I think you'll enjoy it and pick up surprising insights even if you have no interest in Hawaii per se, or even if you're not normally a Bible reader.
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Summary: how i feel about it
Review: there was a guy that read from this book at springhill when i was there and my friend and i looked at each other and knew in that moment that we needed this book in our lives. she gave it to me for my birthday a few months later. i really like to cross reference when i read my Bibles; i have a french Bible and stuff too, and Da Jesus Book really helps me see what Jesus is like and what he said, not just the words he spoke. it really shows his heart.
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