An Article by Maurice Leenhardt Rereading, a Hundred Years Later, “Notes on the Translation of the New Testament in Primitive Language”

A century later, the article published by Maurice Leenhardt in the RHPR on “the translation of the New Testament in primitive language” doesn’t refrain from questioning the reader. Though marked by heavy presuppositions, it represents a decisive turn in the intellectual itinerary of its author, as well as in the history of ethnolinguistics and translation. A double contextualisation hence allows to grasp its singularity as well as its challenges.