While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Eliot Bible. The translation of the Scriptures into the
Algonquian language of the Massachuset, made by John Eliot (1604-90), the
Apostle to the Indians, was the first Bible printed in America by the English
authorities. The first edition of the whole Bible was published at Cambridge,
Mass., in 1663,the New Testament having appeared two years before. The books of
Genesis and Matthew seem to have been printed in 1655 and a portion of the
Psalms in 1658, by which time the translation of the whole Bible was completed.
Eliot was the author of other works in the language of the Massachuset, and of
books about the language and the natives (Pilling, Bibliog. Algonq. Lang.,
Bull. B. A. E., 1891). Trumbull's Dictionary of the Eliot Bible, which is
not exhaustive, has been published as the Natick Dictionary (Bull. 25, B. A. E.,
1903). The Eliot Bible is one of the monuments of missionary endeavor and
prescientific study of the Indian tongues. In his linguistic labors Eliot was
assisted by his two sons and by several Indians. See Bible translations,
Cockenoe. (A. F. C.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
