Missionaries and Power

Rachel Issa Djesa

Year of Production: 2001 Category: C-film Duration: 37 min. Sound: mono Language: Dii, French English Subtitles Download the film(253mb) OBS!Broadband only! Download a clip(4,97mb) Contact the Director Since 1949, Maïdawa Thomas had the vision that his people, the Dii, would one day have the Word of God in their mother tongue. Since then, he dedicated all his life to translating the Holy Scripture. He translated the entire Bible, but instead of having a Bible in the Dii language, he remains rather with this declaration: "The work was well done, but, the application of this masterpiece is not for our times, it is for years to come.

Copyright: 2002 Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø
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