Strange names of God : the missionary translation of the Divine Name and the Chinese responses to Matteo Ricci's Shangti in late Ming China, 1583-1644
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Strange names of God : the missionary translation of the Divine Name and the Chinese responses to Matteo Ricci's Shangti in late Ming China, 1583-1644
（Studies in biblical literature / Hemchand Gossai, general editor, v. 70）
Peter Lang, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-314) and index
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One of the most precarious and daunting tasks for sixteenth-century European missionaries in the cross-cultural mission frontiers was translating the name of « God (Deus) into the local language. When the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) introduced the Chinese term
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