Welcome to the
electronic Gullah Bible!
Overview
Basic
navigation
Additional
features
The
Concordance
Other
information
Copyright issues
and contacting us
Overview
The goal of this site is to make the Gullah New Testament even more accessible, available, and useable than just in print form alone. There are many ways to navigate around a Bible on this site. The index you see on the left (yellow)
pane provides
a number of ways to find a passage.
Basic
navigation
- If you click on a book name,
you will get a list of the section titles for that book. It provides a
bird's-eye view of the whole book. Each of these section titles is an active
link. Click on one to go there.
- Click on a chapter number
under any book name to go there. Then you can scroll to any verse.
- The back arrow on the
browser will take the user to the previous view or location.
- There is a button above the yellow navigation pane that will Go to the top of the book.
- As you move from book to book you will see a
green tab near the top left of the right hand pane that
tells you which book you are currently in. This is helpful when you are
in the middle of a large book, or jumping from one active link to
another.
Some additional features:
- Parallel passages are found as active links below section titles
where different versions of the same story occur in more than one book.
This is most common in the synoptic Gospels. If that particular book
has been translated, then the parallel passages referring to that book
are all active links. In this way the user can compare the same story,
for example, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, simply by clicking the mouse.
As an exercise, go to Luke 3:21 and follow the parallel passages
telling the story about John baptizing Jesus.
- If you are finding the font size too small for
your eyes, in most browsers you can increase font size by
clicking on View,
Text Size, Increase.
The
Concordance
Some people are familiar with the idea of a Bible
concordance, but have never had access to one. This electronic
version of the Gullah Nyew Testament
makes this useful tool accessible to everyone.
- At the
very top of the yellow navigation pane click on the Concordance.
- This opens up an alphabetical list. Let's say
we want to do a topical study seeing what the Bible says about ‘glory.’
- Beside the ‘G’ letter click
on the plus sign ‘+’, then find
glory.
You will see this occurs 123 times in the Gullah New Testament.
- Click on glory.
You will see all occurrences of glory
appear in the upper right hand pane. Scroll down through the list.
- Click on the link in
Luke 2:14 (Luk 2.14),
and you will see that passage appear in the lower right hand pane, with
all occurrences of glory
highlighted.
- Now go back to the yellow navigation pane at
the left, and open up ‘T’ to find tority.
Find and click on the link to Acts 1:7 (Act
1.7)
and you will see that passage appear in the lower right hand pane, with
all occurrences of tority
highlighted.
- You get
the idea. The search is limited to finding single
words only, and not phrases
like “Holy Spirit” or “Son of God.”.
Other
information
All the
features described above enable any speaker of Gullah who
has
access to this internet version to have a
kind of Bible study tool that they have never before had access
to. In
addition, the user can:
- Copy
material into sermon, Bible study, or personal notes;
- Print materials for study; and pass the Scriptures
on to others.
Copyright
issues and contacting us
The Gullah
New Testament translation text is copyright
©2005 by Wycliffe;
not to prevent any legitimate use and copying, but to guard against
anyone
modifying it or otherwise misusing it. Permission is given to use and
copy up
to a whole chapter of the electronic Bible materials provided that:
·
the text of
scripture is not changed
·
the source is
cited (www.gullahbible.com)
·
the copyright notice is included (copyright
©2005 Wycliffe).