TY - BOOK AU - Steven,Hugh AU - Aschmann,Herman P. TI - Translating Christ: the memoirs of Herman Peter Aschmann, Wycliffe Bible translator SN - 9780878086191 AV - F1221.A813.S748 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Pasadena, California PB - William Carey Library KW - Wycliffe Bible Translators KW - History KW - Summer Institute of Linguistics KW - Totonac Indians KW - Missions KW - Religion N1 - 2; Please tell me what happened --; Misdeeds --; Finding an anchor --; What would God think of that? --; Discovering a new world --; Jailhouse rock --; A song for the dead --; Making friends --; Trying to make life easier doesn't always work --; Accidents will happen --; New helpers --; The book that smacked of the truth --; Fishing for words --; Born with ink in his veins --; Give me your soul --; Please never come to visit me again --; Thinking more of God's past blessings --; A new challenge --; The best is yet to be; 2 N2 - Told through private conversations and personal correspondence between Hermon Aschmann and the author, with additional insight from Aschmann's family and friends, Translating Christ pieces together the life of Herman Aschmann, Wycliffe Bible translator, and his wife as they lived and worked among the Totonac people of Mexico. Aschmann's abundance of physical and intellectual energy, linked with a passionate curiosity and empathetic concern for the language and culture of the Totonac people, enable him to translate three distinct Totonac New Testaments. This became the foundation for the remarkable growth of the Totonac church in Mexico ER -