A team is translating the Bible - from original Greek and Hebrew - into British Sign Language.
Sign language has experienced a surge of interest in the past couple of years. Deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis wowed on Strictly Come Dancing last year - and the film Coda, about a teenager who is the only hearing member of a deaf family, won best picture at the 2022 Oscars. But there's now another project under way with its roots stretching back more than 2,000 years. The Bible is being translated into British Sign Language .
The BSL Bible Translation Project is trying to put that right. A team of Christian volunteers have been working with historical and biblical experts to translate the Bible from the original Greek and Hebrew texts into a BSL video version. "Growing up, it felt like I was always told what to think. When I became a teacher I wanted the children I taught to think for themselves.
Rev Canon Gill Behenna, one of the trustees of the project, is a Church of England priest and works with the Deaf community in Bristol. She says the project is using signs that are already widely understood, rather than creating new ones. "Although a huge number of Deaf people are bilingual, it's different having the words of scripture in your own heart language - the language you use and you identify with."Currently, Deaf churchgoers may experience sermons with an interpreter, but sometimes the signing can be done on the fly, and as such, some Bible stories can be embellished or added to unnecessarily.
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