MNSDHFGV The New Testament in Scots, Translated by William Laughton Lorimer - Hardcover

Lorimer, William Laughton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0900025247 ISBN 13: 9780900025242

Publisher: Southside, 1983

Synopsis

The Greek scholar William Lorimer spent the last ten years of his life working on this project. Each Gospel has a different form of Scots to match the different forms of Greek used by the various apostles and scribes, and the vigour and immediacy of the language is everywhere apparent.

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Book Description

Edited by Robin Lorimer, and with a new introduction by James Robertson

About the Author

WILLIAM LAUGHTON LORIMER (1885-1967) was born at Strathmartinc, near Dundee, and spent most of his life teaching, first as Lecturer in Greek at St Andrews University, then as Reader in Humanity at University College, Dundee, and finally for two years (1953-5) as Professor of Greek at St Andrews. Though best known as one of the most learned Greek scholars of his generation, he had first begun studying spoken Scots when he was only nine years old. During the last twenty years of his life, he made a substantial contribution to The Scottish National Dictionary; during the last ten, he also translated the New Testament from Greek into Scots, but had not finally revised three-quarters of his voluminous manuscripts when he died. His son R. L. C. Lorimer (1918-96), a distinguished publisher and scholar in his own right, completed the transcription and the editing of the work which was published to great acclaim in 1983

About this edition

• Publisher: Southside
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0900025247
• ISBN 13: 9780900025242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1