Nida Eugene A. (ed.) The book of a thousand tongues

Second revised edition. — London: United Bible societies, 1972. — xv, 536 p.It is highly appropriate that in 1972, designated International Book Year, a new edition of The Book of a Thousand Tongues should appear, for this is the story of the publication of the Book of books. Every year millions of people learn to read for the first time. Nor are those millions children only. Vast numbers of adults make the transition from illiteracy to literacy - and in doing so find that a new world opens up to them. Take away the bandage of illiteracy from the eyes of a people and you open up the way to advanced standards of living, of opportunity, of culture. For the Christian, there is one book above all others which he longs to put into the hands of his fellow-men; since this is the book which removes spiritual poverty and moral blindness. This is the book for all people, whether they come from a nation which takes literacy for granted, or whether they belong to the ‘emerging nations’. This book is the Bible. The Christian knows that it is this book which bears to the reader Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. It has borne this precious burden for nearly two thousand years and it bears Him still - and today, as this Book of a Thousand Tongues makes plain, in more languages than ever before. Indeed, there is a sense in which the title is a misnomer, inasmuch as some part of the Bible is now translated into well over fourteen hundred languages.Contents:
Preface by the Archbishop of York
Introduction by Eugene A. Nida
Synopsis of languages
Scriptures for the blind
Some important ‘firsts’
Alphabetical list of 1399 languages
Chronological list of 1399 languages
List of languages in which the Bible Societies have published the Scriptures
Index of variant names
Index of scripts
General index