The New Testament In Scots by William Lorimer
In making this Scots translation of the New Testament, the author undertook the project of re-creating Scots prose, and went to work scrutinising upwards of 180 translations in more than 20 languages.
William Laughton Lorimer (1885-1967) was born at Strathmartine near Dundee and spent most of his life on his native East Coast as a teacher and a classical scholar. In the years before and after the Great War he lectured in Greek at St Andrews University, going on to become a Reader in Humanity at University College, Dundee (1929-53), before returning to St Andrews as Professor of Greek for three years until his retirement in 1955. Engaged with spoken Scots since his boyhood, he made many major contributions to the Scottish National Dictionary in his later years. It was also at this time that he started to translate the New Testament from Greek into Scots. He spent the last ten years of his life at this task, but he died before his final revisions could be made. It was his son Robin L.C. Lorimer who completed the revisions and prepared the manuscripts for publication.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781841951447 |
| ISBN 10 | 1841951447 |
| Title | The New Testament In Scots |
| Author | William Lorimer |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2001-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 528 |
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