Talk:Adoniram Judson
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[edit] Cleanup requested
The English of this article has some atrocious grammar and syntax. Additionally, the article seems to be filled with POV ("his work was perfect") and questionable facts ("he translated the Bible from Hebrew" [the Christian Bible's original is written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, so unless he translated 90% of the "Old Testament", and that's all, this statement is incomplete at best]). Tomertalk 22:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
- Cleaned up (IMHO). Reworded the most arguably outrageous statements and checked the facts against web and books. He is reported to have translated the whole Bible into Burmese - the comment on the source language has already been deleted. Welsh 20:22, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Significant Source
Christian History & Biography, Issue 90, Spring 2006 is primarily focused on him and his missionary activity. It also has a list of recommended secondary sources. I'll be expanding extensively over the next few days. GRBerry 18:06, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Excellent! Maybe you can find out which flavor of Baptist he was, too. Angr (talk) 18:40, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
- Well, he converted aboard ship while en route to his mission. This conversion meant a loss of financial support from the Congregationalist organization that had sponsored him. The resultant need for funds led to the first Baptist association in the U.S.. It is more accurate to say that there are U.S. Baptist associations because of Judson than that he belonged to any of them! His strongest Bpatist influences would probably be William Carey and Brown University, which was a Baptist institution by the name of Rhode Island College when he attended it. GRBerry 21:27, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Ok, here is the list of Judson biographies that the magazine recommends:
- Anderson, Courtney (1956). To The Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson. Little, Brown and Company.
- Blumberg, Joan Jacobs (1980). Mission for Life: The story of the family of Adoniram Judson, the dramatic events of the first American foreign mission, and the course of evangelical religion in the nineteenth century. Free Press.
- Hunt, Rosalie Hall (2005). Bless God and Take Courage: The Judson History and Legacy. Judson Press.
- Judson, Edward P. (1883). The Life of Adoniram Judson. American Baptist Publication Society.
- Warburton, Stacy R. (1937). Westward! The Story of Adoniram Judson. Round Table Press.
- Wayland, Francis (1853). A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson. Phillipos, Sampson & Co..
- Knowles, James D. (1831). Memoir of Mrs. Ann H. Judson. Boston: Lincoln & Edmands. , reprinted in facsimile form in the series (1987) in Ed. Caroly De Swarte Gifford: Women in American Protestant Religion 1800-1930. Garland Pub., Inc..
