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Biscuit Tin Bible


Author: National Library of Uganda
Source: World Digital Library - Books

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Ekitabo ekitukuvu ekya Katonda, kyebayita Baibuli ye Ndagano enkade nempya ekyakyusibwa mu Luganda (The Holy Book of God, called the Bible of the Old and New Testaments, translated into Luganda), also known as the “Biscuit Tin Bible,” is the first translation of the Bible into Luganda, the language of the Baganda, the largest ethnic group in present-day Uganda. The translation was made in Buganda through the combined efforts of the missionaries of the Church Missionary Society of England and new Baganda Christian converts. British missionaries began arriving in Uganda in ...