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Basque Studies Program Newsletter · Issue
51, 1995
The Bible in Basque
By Jacques Bellay
In 1571 Joannes Leizarrga, a Catholic priest from
Zuberoa, joined the Protestant Reform movement and undertook
the translation of the New Testament into Basque for the
first time. The Roman Church set their sights on the task in
1740 when Haraneder produced his translation of the New
Testament. More recently, in 1976 the abbot Kerexeta
translated the Bible into Bizkaian.
Meanwhile, a new ecumenical translation of the Bible
into Basque has appeared in bookstores under the title
Elizen Arteko Biblia, published by the Sociedades
B¡blicas Unidas, an organization that includes both
Protestants and Catholics in the Basque
Country.
This book is sturdily bound and contains all sorts of
interesting information at the end of the volume, such as
twenty pages of interdialectical vocabulary, thirty pages of
Biblical dictionary, a subject index, plus maps and a
timetable of Biblical history compared with general history
of the period.
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