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Little-Known Black History Fact: Jacqueline Huggins
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 5:09 am
By: Erica Taylor, The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Jacqueline Huggins is the world’s first African-American woman to complete a New Testament translation of The Bible. She’s also the first African-American to complete translation of the New Testament since the 1900’s. She belongs to the Wycliff Bible Society.
Born from a family of turmoil, Huggins and her siblings were placed in an abusive foster home for years before returning to their birth mother. She admits to being a disbeliever in all religion at one point in her life. As a child, she wanted to make people believe that spirituality had no purpose. She would help people develop their own philosophy so they wouldn’t believe in God. She ended up at a bible study with intentions to prove others wrong, and instead, discovered the Word.
With training from the Philadelphia College of the Bible, Forty Wayne Bible College and the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Huggins used her calling to travel to the Philliphines.
There, at age 36, she would translate the Word for 25,000 people. It was in 2007, 20 years later, that she completed the translation for the Filipino Kagayanen language. The new copy became available in 2008.
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