FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, November 11, 2005
Release of 2005 Chamorro Bible
Contact: Rlene Santos Steffy
Tel: 888-1010

Robert Joseph and Rlene Santos Steffy, publishers of the Y Santa Biblia, Palabran Jesucristo Sija Gui Tinige Agaga, Chamorro, will release copies of the Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition today, Friday, November 11, 2005, at the University of Guam's Lecture Hall in Mangilao.

The Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition is the only Chamorro Bible solely in the Chamorro language with all six Biblical books as originally published in the rare "Chamorro and English Scriptures" published in 1908 by the American Bible Society.

In October 2005, 1,000 copies were printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. in Dexter Michigan, United States of America. Anyone who reserved copies of the Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition Bible can pick them up tomorrow between 1-3 p.m.

500 copies will be available for public release which can be purchased for $32 each at UOG's Lecture Hall tomorrow.

“This is a very important event in Chamorro Bible history, Chamorro history [covers Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands] and a very big event in our family's history to have had the privilege of publishing the Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition Bible and putting it back into circulation after 97 years of almost non-existence. The Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition is a special sample of a 1900 Chamorro literature and we hope the people of Guam will share our excitement in having their own copy,” Rlene said.

Front cover of the October 2005 Steffy printing of Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition. The cover is black. Printed on the front cover in gold letters are the words, Y SANTA BIBLIA. Image credit: Rlene Santos Steffy. Full size image.

Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition (October 2005 Steffy printing) open to Salmo 119 and Salmo 120. Image credit: Rlene Santos Steffy. Full size image.		Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition (October 2005 Steffy printing) open to San Mateo 23 and San Mateo 24. Palabran Jesucristo Sija Gui Tinige Agaga (Words of Jesus Christ in Red). Image credit: Rlene Santos Steffy. Full size image.

Front cover, back cover, and spine of Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro (October 2005 Steffy printing). The covers and spine are black. Printed in gold on the front cover are the words, Y SANTA BIBLIA. The words printed in gold at the top of the spine are, Y SANTA BIBLIA. Printed in gold at the bottom of the spine is the word: Chamorro. Image credit: Rlene Santos Steffy. Full size image.

The Y Santa Biblia, Chamorro Edition camera-ready electronic text (e-text) used by publisher Robert Joseph and Rlene Santos Steffy for their October 2005 printing of Y Santa Biblia, Palabran Jesucristo Sija Gui Tinige Agaga, Chamorro was (at no charge) provided by and is courtesy of ChamorroBible.org. Mr. and Mrs. Steffy published the camera-ready text exactly as supplied by the editor of ChamorroBible.org's Chamorro Bible e-texts, Clarence L. Thomas IV. The camera-ready text (as are all Chamorro Bible e-texts available at ChamorroBible.org) was and is independently prepared and maintained.

Related: http://ChamorroBible.org/chamorrobibleproject/media/steffy-announcement-may-2006-y-santa-biblia-chamorro-english-edition.htm