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The Bible Society in Australia--Translating and Editing The Bible Society in Australia is part of an international network of more than 140 Bible societies working in more than 200 countries. Each Society has responsibility for translation, publication and distribution of Bibles in their own country, and contributes in various ways to projects in other countries. Publications range from complete Bibles to just a few paragraphs in a leaflet. The publications take the format of print, electronic, audio or film. The Translation and Text Division of the Bible Society in Australia is based in Canberra. The staff employed by the Division, however, live in Canberra, South Australia and Darwin. The staff of the Division are involved in the production of Bibles in two principal ways. Translation Consultants are involved at the grass-roots level, enabling translation to take place. Editors work from the completed translation, and process it for publication as Scripture. The Translation and Text Division is involved in more than 16 translation projects in Australia and many more in the Asia-Pacific region, including Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Mongolia. Some of these projects are complete Bibles with book introductions, footnotes, cross-references, subtitles (section headings), maps, illustrations and glossaries. Others are smaller, first-time translations of a few Bible books. Some of the Division’s current projects include the Kriol Bible (the first complete Bible in an Australian Aboriginal language), the Saa New Testament (a translation into a new language from Vanuatu), the Auslan--‘Australian Sign Language’--mini-Bible on video (the first major translation into Auslan, for the Deaf), and books of the Bible in several Pacific languages transcribed into Braille. The staff also maintain a large collection of Bible translations--some of which are of historical importance--as well as a library of materials to assist translators.
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