This is the largest religious sign language dictionary published in America! It supplies multiple signs for the same English word, with usage samples to indicate the different meanings. It also has many cross referenced synonyms, especially helpful to the novice struggling with poetic language in...
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This is the largest religious sign language dictionary published in America! It supplies multiple signs for the same English word, with usage samples to indicate the different meanings. It also has many cross referenced synonyms, especially helpful to the novice struggling with poetic language in hymns.
The authors created this religious sign language dictionary to be a companion book to Martin L. A. Sternberg's "American Sign Language Dictionary," which the Los Angeles Times called "the most comprehensive and clearly written dictionary of sign language ever published." This book includes the religious signs in Sternberg (and often offers alternatives), and it adds many more religious signs and words not in Sternberg, but commonly used in Christian hymns and Scripture. The religious dictionary assumes that readers will own and consult Sternberg for signs not in the religious dictionary.
The authors adopted Sternberg's use of standardized classifiers and handshapes (explained in the front of this dictionary) but instead of the drawing used in Sternberg, this dictionary uses photographs of interpreters illustrating specific gestures or movements.
A spiral binding and large print layout makes this an easy book for interpreters to use when preparing for a church service or other religious setting.
The book was written by Lutheran interpreters and shows a Lutheran bias in sign selection. (For example, the signs given for "baptism" will be different from those used in a church that practices baptism by immersion, but that immersion sign is also shown under "Baptist religion.") Still there are so many sign alternatives in this dictionary, and so many signs and synonyms useful in interpreting Christian hymns and Bible passages that this dictionary deserves wide circulation!
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