It has taken an un-Genesis-like 34 years to create, but Inuit communities in Canada’s Eastern Arctic can now read the complete Bible in their own language.
A consecration ceremony to mark the translation of the King James Version into Inuktitut ”“ the official language in Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut ”“ was held Sunday at the new St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
The project, jointly undertaken by the Canadian Bible Society and the Anglican Church of Canada, cost about $1.75-million, according to Hartmut Wiens, CBS’s director of scripture translation.
Surely the Bible Societies are translating from the Greek and Hebrew and not from the King James Version??