The seed for the book was planted in 1986 while Grimes was here on a teaching sabbatical at the University of Hawaii. Retired Cornell University linguistics professor Joseph Grimes enlisted 26 pidgin speakers in the 12-year translation effort, which had its first fruit in the 1997 publication of the Gospel of Matthew.tthew. The soft-cover book was published by Wycliffe Bible Translators, the world's largest organization involved in translating the Scriptures into languages of tribal people. Da Jesus Book, a translation of the New Testament into pidgin.
"Island pidgin speakers now have an easier-to-understand alternative of reading the Bible.
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