Nathan Esala
Seed Company
Nathan Esala (Mdiv Concordia Seminary 2001, PhD University of KwaZulu-Natal 2021) joined Lutheran Bible Translators in 2002, living with the Komba people in Ghana for 10 years before becoming LBT’s translation coordinator. In 2023, Nathan joined Seed Company to work with Lutheran and mainline church bodies in Church Bible Translation (CBT).
Presentations
- Responding to Language Death: An Emergent Interpretation of the Plant in Jonah 4
- Bible (re-)translation practices/paradigms amidst 'tribal' conflicts in northern Ghana
- Disentangling Competing Purposes in Missionary Bible Translation and African Receptions through Re-translating the Book of Ruth for Interactive Dialogue
- Doing Translation in Conflicted Multiethnic Multilingual and Multireligious Contexts