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Friday, Ju，y 23，1976
New Translations To Give Holy Bibl像 A Fresh， New Impetus In Japan
By mCHARD M. HARLEY
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TOKYO. — WihileJai旭n a (lounti'y said to bp 9$ percentli-t<>rjUe, only a minute1percent or its people readゆe Bible today &3汰basis      their religious
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Yetぉpanese Christians are 6ptimi8もiしovもr new eiideaVors in Bible translatioiiii、d distribuU-,on.'
、かh6 endひf、h^^i9ャ6、wはnesa<ed tw6evotit3: a specialcelebration bythゃJapaivBibleハーioty of it3i6Othanりive1，aary， and iJublicatU^n of ，he Goさpeレof Lu-in ,ai、e\v interdonひnational ti,anj^laUon — the f(rst step toward a ^Vhole Biお je.
A a agoai, ,th e common tians-】rtUoi、comiiiはtee at theBible Society iCJent^nnialaimed to Jfinish the New i^jstamcnぃin197(5， a"d Uie Old Testament by1980.
T riMISla Hons only recent
While   thoish-spooking
、々orldha3hadacce&3 to the Scrip-tlir?vlhermitage through & centuH， esりId ti,diU6n of Bibletransla-tiひp, only rがeれtiyhavie tiwiiisla-tionsbecmavail;ablefor the Japanese, ォhe 'さo-caUed '<Bung<J'， BiVle hafl,. it is triie, beenaVai. table for $ hundredシ幼rs,ゃut itきlaT)guaぉe is in acl&saic«l&ty-1ewhichーayis obsolete, J^ot until1955 wa^theJ&imil さaciety to imVeil the"iCogo"Bi-iiielnni(Hiゃfn cひnVersa"onalJapanese. く
Hoヽvever,、even this was not totally adequate :forChriisUan tもr， ms in Uie Kogo Bible —— ゆok en CJh ni 5 ti aiiexpression s •ch h，ye gi—n up dining the past century in Japfin — are i、ot undei'sl;iimiable to most nop* Christians.
ThもlatestjointTrotゅtねnt-Ro-man Oaitholic twirtslation, in the makii^g for10 yearきnow aims to overcomeキWs prひblさm. XJndゃi'-st汰n(iinにits phrases willnot depend upon a 'reader's previous familifii.ity with Ohi、isti&nHy， thus jn'ovJ(iing a text foil" people
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who have «jeenlittle, if any, 6f the Bible before.
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Curiously enoiigh,へthe new translati。JV ^ Luk^sGosp«lcomes :oyt exactly100 j^ears iafter the1875 publication of Luke's Go导pelillきBimgo vei"$ion. (Tive rest of that early NewTes-tkirient, begun nineye麵rs beifdtre, was coinpleted in1879, the Old T幼bament in1888.)
The theme bo)i、ind theしnew inte漲n6min"iona1ti*幼slotion* andねhe idea 'beWnd thei)"me "Jaj>&nese Coin mo n 3ible,i$kol-m>ni*," the Biblical Greek word for^ fellowship among Cliristkiiiifl, wiiat is done iひcomnaon. HひWe-V63iv as theケnow ;staaid, Pro test; ant andCathol4c and Orthodox usagesliもtle in common— especiaUy wJipn it eひmes to proper nam© a 心f the Bible. Their readmgs often disagiree, and even where they do agree, existing t i»anslab ions fi'equetitly dひnot follow modem ii幼ge.
Deciding pro per names
Bernaa'din Sohneidもi',c.O"Ohaih'-' man of the editorialcommiはee ieports t hat lb y;the simvmer of 1975, the translation committee had met almost mo—ly for six years t^o decide about some 500 Greek and 2,600 Hebrew proper names. Also, they a re compiling: an appendix which willexj)laiれ expressions not common m modern Japanese.
1975 marked an increase of 200，000 in total Bible sales by the J a pa31Bible Society — up to some 2.5 million. A statistiea1 sm、vey taken severalyears ago showed more than 50percent; of Bible readers in Japan were un" der 21.This may indicate. a growing religious interest in the Bible anlong yoimg people, but J邵anese Christians say it aUo reflects1aa"gely an interest in tSie Bible simply asliterature among わhose in school.
Yetfor many Christians in Ja-pail,as one young woman puぃit， the Bible "is not just an oWも00k you can read 6nce,ぁiit aliving book people can read often and find meaning for theirlivゃsto-'day."
Bible asl"eratー
About 40 perceitt of the Bible readers 'have nopajrticまr religious affiliation, 60 j)ercent. are pcm-Chrstia怖,and 40 per cent of Bible p life has«s apparently occur in bookstoies. These facts reflect an aぉeれJapan ys^ich publications of rdigh)us literatureおun-KMered—n radioal:c6由ast to a ceiUi^ry iis:o when Japanese nationals rぉked exile .or d纽th if they coop«ratedwithmisk>na-"es in Bible di«tri"tion'抑d t)j€ World War H period wぉen the Japan BH)le Soci"y's opera* tioTis were severely thwartej and aおre bomb Mマaged the Bible House and its stocks.
To flay the Bibie society of J a一 pan is Mlf^upportinf: atid contribute to transkUon efんits in other countries which ne^d funds ， for their own Scriptuw trans1" tion廳ml distribution*
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