The poor man (image)

Hand colored stencil print on momigami by Sadao Watanabe (1979).

Image taken with permission from the SadaoHanga Catalogue where you can find many more images and information about Sadao Watanabe.

For other images of Sadao Watanabe art works in TIPs, see here.

 

 

The Rich Man and Lazarus (image)

The parable of The Rich Man and Lazarus is illustrated for use in Bible translations in West Africa by Wycliffe Cameroon like this:

Illustration 1999 Mbaji Bawe Ernest, © Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. Used with permission.

complete verse (Luke 16:21)

Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 16:21:

  • Noongar: “Lazarus wanted to eat the crumbs of food which fell from the rich man’s eating place. Dogs always came and licked his sores.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
  • Uma: “He wanted to eat the crumbs that fell/scattered from the table of that rich man. Thus (emphatic) was his poverty/pitifulness, dogs also came to lick his sores.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
  • Yakan: “For he wished/wanted if he only would be given the left-over food of the rich man so that he could eat. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo: “because he hoped that he might be given even the crumbs that fell from the table of the rich man, so that his stomach might be filled with them. And the dogs there, they licked these ulcers of Lazarus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “because he wanted to eat koma from what the rich-man was throwing away. And that’s not all, because even the dogs, they went and licked his sores.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • Tagbanwa: “He was waiting for something hopefully that he could eat of whatever was left over which would fall from the table/eating-place of that rich person. What’s more, dogs were gathering around him licking his sores.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)