Community Of Readers Research Articles

A Critical Study of Abba Ho Patēr in Romans 8:15 in the New Revised Asante Twi Version (2018)

Bible translation is among the difficult exercises in scholarship because it demands a careful analysis of the biblical text from the source language into the target language. The religio-cultural settings and worldview of the indigenous people are also considered so that they are able to access the word of God as written and meant by the author(s). An example of Bible translation exercise is the New Revised Asante Twi Version (NRATV) 2018, which contains some translation problems. Some texts are not translated but “carried wholly” into the new or target language to make them look as if they form part of the native language. One of such is “Abba,” which is a HebraicAramaic word found in Romans 8:15. Since Abba is not an Asante (and Akan) language, it becomes difficult for the Asante reading community (and by extension all Akan languages) and users of the Asante-Twi Bible to understand and express the concept within their religio-cultural worldview because they do not understand the thought of the author in their language. Using exegetical, mother-tongue hermeneutics and the communicative method of translation as approaches, the study has found out that the translation of …Αββα ὁ πατήρ (…Abba ho Patēr) as …Abba, Agya (…Abba, Father) in the Asante-Twi Bible (2018) should be rendered as “…Agya, M’agya” (Father, My Father). The study has thus added to the interpretations of Romans 8:15 in Asante-Twi. It is being recommended that in the future revision of the Asante-Twi Bible, the Bible Society of Ghana should consider using “…Agya, M’agya” (Father, My Father) in the translation of … Αββα ὁ πατήρ (…Abba ho Patēr).

Online Book Fairs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract Online book fairs are being held in Vietnam to replace traditional offline events that have been shelved owing to the COVID-19 crisis. This study aims to explore book consumers’ perceptions regarding digital book fairs and their evaluation of the first-ever national online book fair held in Vietnam. In-depth interviews were conducted to obtain insights from people who had attended the online book event. The findings provide acceptance of and support for the organization of digital book fairs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Attendees generally appreciated the convenience of the national online book fair and the promotional programmes offered by various publishers and distributors. Furthermore, some attendees enjoyed the novelty of the event and the feeling of being included in the reading community. Nevertheless, most of the attendees highlighted several limitations, especially the lack of social and face-to-face interaction. These findings have implications for online book fair organizers, publishers, and book distributors alike.

Reading Dar es Salaam’s (Female-led) Book Clubs as Paravirtual Networks

ABSTRACT This article focuses on three Dar es Salaam-based book clubs, all founded by women post-2016 – Taswira Book Club, Umoja Book Club and Leaders Read Book Club – and examines how they are positioned through their relationships with booksellers, digital technology and each other. Building on the work of Stephanie Bosch-Santana and drawing on original interview material, it argues for these book clubs as paravirtual networks through which vibrant reading communities are being constructed in Tanzania. Documenting the variety of ways in which digital technology supports and sustains these new literary communities, even while physical meetings continue to be important, this article is concerned with how these book clubs are able to open up new forms of social space and female-led communal participation around books. While booksellers in Tanzania are working closely with these book clubs, this study reveals a disconnect between these book clubs and Tanzania-based publishers. The conclusion proposes that new modes of literary activism can be opened up by publishers and book clubs working more closely together.

Books and Discussion Hybrid Space for Creative City

When pandemic covid-19 happen, many reading community basecamp are closed. It is because of the danger for the visitors to come. The small reading house can’t provide enough space for visitors to get physical distancing. So it is important to think about future city planning that solve this problem. We know that creative place is important to raise creative vibe for encouraging the growth of creative citizen. The online platforms become alternative space that also supports this purpose. So we may need the hybrid space which combine between physical and digital space. With qualitative method we can find out some ‘ideal spaces’ that can be learnt and being inspiration for that purpose. Ubud Writers Readers Festival, Asian Literary Festival, International Literary Festival and Patjar Merah Literary Festival can be the study cases. The creative festivals have components that we need to replicate in the ideal space for discussion and reading public space. Europe cities have corners where people can charity their books while another citizen uses the books by reading them on the spot or bring them to home. Exchanging books and ideas not only become good culture but also create citizens great bounding for stronger city.

Libraries of the Ages: THE DIGLIBS

Digital libraries are a way to cost effective Reading resources for school librarians. They can build Reading Communities through digital libraries. A case study of G.D.Goenka Schools in India will be presented in the paper. The current economic trends in the Information and Publishing industry will be examined and how school librarians are affected. Digital Libraries as reading resources are a new paradigm that may help to meet the economic parameters of the institutions. The paper will compare digital Reading resources with traditional reading resources and It will establish that 21st century learner is truly digital native and is very confident and comfortable with technology and online reading. It will also be emphasized that it is the format, which is changing, and not the content or its importance. The main goal of this paper is to show how school librarians can adopt strategies to use free digital reading Resources to build reading communities of young and young adult students by providing case studies and a Tool-Kit used by the school.

Creating a reading community

A reading community is one that not only values the act of reading – it is one where everyone reads! There is a culture amongst staff, students and families at Meriden where reading is more than valued – it is an integral part of our daily life. Meriden is a P-12 Anglican day school for girls. It is situated in the centrally located suburb of Strathfield in Sydney, Australia. Through Meriden’s recognition of its community’s diversity it is a place where students are able to grow in faith, care and learning. Central to all teaching programs at Meriden is the belief that learning is a lifelong process.

A New Reciprocal Teaching Approach for Information Literacy Education under the Background of Big Data

The library is an important platform for readers to acquire information, and also shoulders the responsibility to cultivate readers’ information literacy. How to enhance information literacy is a public service issue that warrants prompt solution. In this study, we establish a reciprocal teaching mode composed of four elements: teacher, student, learning content and interaction-supporting platform, based on the reciprocal teaching theory, in combination with the characteristics of information literacy training in information-based libraries, uses virtual reality (VR) technology to produce verisimilar teaching resources and build a virtual reading environment and a virtual reading community, to enable readers to discuss, read and evaluate under a dynamic reading mode. Meanwhile, a new reciprocal teaching technique of “Rain Classroom” is also introduced innovatively. We first conduct a quantitative evaluation on information literacy using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, then verify and correct the evaluation results using data mining technology, so that objective and accurate results can be obtained for the evaluation of readers’ information literacy. After the implementation of this library learning mode, through a questionnaire survey and analysis, it is concluded that the proposed mode can help the library spread knowledge, improve the effect of information literacy.

FOLKLORE IN LITERATURE LEARNING AS A MODEL FOR DEVELOPING CULTURAL CHARACTERS AND STUDENTS 'PERSONALITY

Folklore is one of the literary genres which is a cultural product of society and belongs to the community. As a cultural product, folklore contains noble cultural values that are upheld and respected by the people. The messages conveyed in the folklore contain character education values that should be emulated by the reading community. Therefore, folklore can be a vehicle for learning and character building in students that can be conveyed through literary learning. Literature learning must be able to generate and foster good moral values in students that can make students behave in an acceptable manner by the community. Literature learning must be able to develop critical, creative, polite, responsible, disciplined, respectful attitudes to students, both in relation to themselves, relationships with others, and relationships with worship. These individual, social and religious values can be found in folklore. Therefore, learning literature should put more emphasis on the appreciation of folklore to foster local wisdom values in students.Key words: folklore, literature learning, cultural character, student personality

Civic Identity and Public Space: Belfast since 1780, by Dominic Bryan and S. J. Connolly, with John Nagle, Literacy, Language, and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann O’Cinneide

Reviewed by: Civic identity and public space: Belfast since 1780 by Dominic Bryan, S. J. Connolly, and John Nagle, and: Literacy, Language, and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland ed. by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann O’Cinneide Sean O'Toole (bio) Civic identity and public space: Belfast since 1780, by Dominic Bryan and S. J. Connolly, with John Nagle; pp. ix + 238. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019, $120.00, £80.00. Literacy, Language, and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann O'Cinneide; pp. xiii + 213. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019, $120.00, £90.00. As talk of a hard border loomed, the tragic death of journalist Lyra McKee in a Derry/Londonderry street in April 2019 served as a stark reminder of the lethal potential at the contested sites of language and public space in Northern Ireland. The presence at McKee's funeral of Prime Minister Theresa May, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, and Irish president Michael D. Higgins, among thousands of mourners at St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, spoke equally of the desire to uphold the ideals of good relations and shared space declared under the 1998 Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. Two recent studies skillfully illuminate the long history of these conflicting currents in Irish civic life and political culture. Civic identity and public space: Belfast since 1780, by Dominic Bryan and [End Page 123] S. J. Connolly, with John Nagle, offers a detailed account of the development of new ideas of collective identity and public space in an urban industrial society, ideas that prevailed elsewhere in Victorian Britain but whose flawed adoption in Ulster reverberates to this day. Literacy, Language, and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Rebecca Anne Barr, Sarah-Anne Buckley, and Muireann O'Cinneide engages with the politics of Irish literacy, defined not simply as a set of statistics or skillsets but as a "contested and politically charged prism through which to read Ireland's history," with some of its most intriguing chapters exploring the reading communities established by Irish periodicals, the imperial mapping of Ireland and India, and the late-century vogue for palmistry (2). As Civic identity and public space shows, the public debate on parades and other expressions of identity and allegiance in Northern Ireland has been "passionate yet superficial," with both unionists and nationalists asserting long-standing "rights" and "exclusive claims to space" (2). The book adds a historical dimension to the debate by demonstrating that the modern concept of public space and the conventions for regulating its use are themselves products of specific historical developments. Belfast, the industrial metropolis of Ulster, provides a useful case study. The first six of nine chapters offer a lucid historical narrative of the origins of public space in the town's shift from eighteenth-century aristocratic proprietorship and the "polite space" of urban elites residing in the city center to the nineteenth-century commercialization of the center and rapid expansion of residential districts outward in every direction, segregated by social class, religion, and political allegiance (30). The resulting spirit of exclusiveness and discrimination, along with a corrupt one-party rule and the sectional monopoly of public space, became mutually reinforcing calcifications. In the decades leading up the 1921 partition of Ireland, Ulster looked increasingly like "a potentially separate political unit, with Belfast as its capital in waiting" (130). The book's final three chapters offer a social-scientific analysis of the renegotiation of public space in the city in the past sixty years, no less interesting but perhaps necessarily more crowded with an accumulation of acronyms. Fortunately, the book's main interest lies in its meticulous historical detail and in its cogent argument: the problems of access to and control of public space in Belfast are fundamentally rooted in the limitations of nineteenth-century liberalism within the imperial context of religious and political sectionalism. Only against this background can Belfast's more recent history be properly understood. There are several other fascinating historiographic insights as well. First, discussion of Belfast's distinctive pattern of sectarian violence has tended to focus on the armed conflicts of the early 1920s and again from 1969...

The #bookstagram: distributed reading in the social media age

Social media platforms have given rise to diverse ‘reading formations’ (Bennett and Woollacott, 1987) from bespoke reading communities with strong affective bonds to the ‘ambient affiliation’ (Zappavigna, 2014) more typical of followers of reading-related hashtags (#amreading). What makes all of these formations distinctive is that they ‘bring into visibility an entirely new social dimension to reading’ (Pinder, 2012:68), and a sociality that is often reliant as much on the sharing of images as on words.This article will focus specifically on shared acts of reading on Instagram, a social networking service for sharing photographs and videos. In particular, I will explore the phenomenon of the #bookstagram where readers share images of the book they are currently reading aestheticised and personalised through the use of evocative backdrops and objects. Such activities are all too often dismissed as empty displays by narcissistic millennials keen to make their mark in the ‘attention economy’. However, I will argue that the #bookstagram offers a way for readers to share acts of reading with others in a way that evokes the sensory and the sensual, and also provides a form of ‘embodied reenactment’ (Tolins and Samermit, 2016) that can generate discussion and empathy between users.My analysis will focus on the ways in which body parts, especially hands, feature in the images to evoke a sense of an embodied connection between reader and book. I will also examine how the images create a strong sense of reading as a situated activity that is associated with calmness, serenity and being close to nature. My discussion of emerging reading practices is informed by theories which move away from an exclusive focus on reading as a series of mental processes or the decoding of signs, to consider reading as a distributed, embodied activity that involves interacting with others and one's environment. The analysis of the #bookstagram will examine how the activity can be located in relation to culturally and historically grounded practices relating to the book as object of display and to representations of reading bodies from visual art. However, I will also be arguing that the specific affordances of social media help produce readerly interactions that are dialogic and reliant on an ethos of participation where displays of intimate and private acts are routinely commented on and repurposed by others.

The politics of happily-ever-after: romance genre fiction as aesthetic public sphere

How does the romance reading community understand the genre in relation to sociopolitical concerns? This paper draws on interviews, observations of romance writers’ conferences, and a variety of text data to explore how popular romance fiction functions as an aesthetic public sphere, a site of political discourse. While I find that romance novels and the romance community address a range of sociopolitical issues, readers and writers debate whether they should address these issues. Some think romance should only provide entertainment, while others embrace the genre’s potential for active engagement with sociopolitical issues. These expectations play out in both romance novels and in community relations. Despite debate over the ideal purpose of romance, there is widespread agreement among readers that the genre is fundamentally about hope and the belief that love—and romance reading—can transform the world. This research extends the aesthetic public sphere concept to popular genre fiction, showing that romance is a particular kind of reading experience that allows readers to engage with serious sociopolitical issues with the promise of a happily-ever-after.

«Про солдата-сироту»: мотив сиротства в повестях В. Астафьева рубежа 1950–1960-х гг.

We analyze the process of appearance and approval of orphanhood motive in V. Astafyev’s work. We substantiate its connection with autobiographical episodes from the prosaist’s life. The purpose of work: to prove the idea of origin and institutionalization in V. Astafyev’s prose of a character’s special type through emphasizing the motive of orphanhood. The relevance of the study is due to the inexhaustible interest in the prosaist’s unique work on the part of criticism, literary studies, reading community. Based on the stories material of the turn of 1950–1960s (“Pass”, “Starodub”, “Starfall”, “Theft”, “Last Tribute”) we establish the typological similarity of Astafyev’s characters both among themselves and with the characters of Russian literature classics (N.M. Karamzin, A.I. Kuprin, M.M. Prishvin). We argue the idea of fundamental commonality of Astafyev’s character-orphan with the type of “natural”, “untutored” person. We express and prove the assumption that this community, among other things, is the result of V. Astafyev’s reflections on the social and ethical problems that concern him: the spiritual and moral loneliness of a modern person, the loss of ethical and social ties between generations, a consumer attitude to nature, a separation from origins. We find a deep connection between the actualization of the orphanhood topic in the prosaist’s work and the large-scale social cataclysms of the twentieth century (military conflicts, socio-political upheavals, urbanization, disintegration of the traditional village, corrosion of once stable family values).

Secularism and Hermeneutics by Yael Almog

Reviewed by: Secularism and Hermeneutics by Yael Almog Brandon Bloch Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 216. Cloth $65.00. ISBN 978-0812251258. The past three decades have witnessed a sea change in scholarship on secularism and secularization. If once-dominant narratives described the evacuation of religion from modern public life, theorists such as Talal Asad and Saba Mahmood have redefined secularism as a tool of governance by which modern states seek to harness and regulate acceptable forms of religious expression. At the same time, historians of eighteenth-century Europe—the fulcrum on which traditional understandings of secularization rest—have challenged simplistic oppositions of religion and Enlightenment. Works such as Jonathan Sheehan's The Enlightenment Bible (2005) and David Sorkin's The Religious Enlightenment (2008) have shown instead how reappropriations of religious texts have shaped new concepts of citizenship, culture, and law. In Secularism and Hermeneutics, Yael Almog synthesizes and advances this wide-ranging literature to contend that modern hermeneutics, often considered the quintessential practice of secular interpretation, emerged out of Enlightenment-era religious conflict. Blending readings of Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher, G.W.F. Hegel, and others with pointed interventions in contemporary theory, Almog invites readers to rethink not only commonplaces about the Enlightenment but also their own interpretive practices. At the core of Secularism and Hermeneutics lies an analysis of Enlightenment efforts to read the Bible not as a sacred text of revelation, but as a universal document of human culture. The novel hermeneutics that arose in the German-speaking Enlightenment, Almog argues, centered around a new vision of the Bible as the basis for a universal reading community. Efforts to achieve this community, however, foundered on the confessional diversity of German societies, exemplified in the battle over Jewish emancipation. For the central protagonists of Enlightenment hermeneutics—the Pietist philosopher Johann Georg Hamann as well as Herder, Schleiermacher, and Hegel—the Hebrew Bible recorded the origins of humanity's religious consciousness, but its meaning had become obscured through an insular Jewish communalism. It was Christianity that gave voice to the Bible's universal core and could interpret its message for the modern state. Yet Jewish authors spoke back, seeking inclusion in the Enlightenment public sphere without abandoning their religious heritage. Almog reconstructs the emergence of modern hermeneutics from [End Page 401] the entanglements of Christian and Jewish thought, as both sides sought to mediate confessional commitments with articulations of shared humanity. The first half of the text centers on the tension between Protestant efforts to create a universal reading culture, underpinned by supersessionist logics and the defense of Jewish reading practices advanced most notably by the Orthodox Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. Herder and Goethe deplored the Hebrew language as a barrier to comprehension, regarding the work of translation as both a lamentable loss of meaning and a necessary condition of universal readership. Mendelssohn, by contrast, declared Judaism a forerunner of Enlightenment toleration, with its emphasis on oral transmission and refusal to coerce belief in God. Drawing on postcolonial approaches to the encounters of Islam and Western thought, Almog characterizes Mendelssohn's position as one of "situated universalism" (91). Rather than breaking with Enlightenment universalism from the standpoint of Judaism, Mendelssohn insisted on their interdependence. Although not framed as such, Almog's reading of Mendelssohn marks a break with critical theorists of secularism such as Asad and Mahmood. While the latter seek to expose political secularism as an effort to reinscribe Protestant norms as standards of liberal citizenship, Almog argues instead that secular hermeneutics emerged in contentious negotiation among confessional models of reading, with none conclusively imposing its own standards. The book's second part shifts from philosophy to literary criticism, spotlighting how novels such as Heinrich Heine's Der Rabbi von Bacherach (1840) and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's Die Judenbuche (1842) challenged the constricted (and antisemitic) universalisms promoted by the Protestant mainstream. In Heine's novel, Almog finds a moving testament to the persistence of Jewish suffering perpetuated not only by self-imposed separation but by the scapegoating and bigotry of the Christian majority—a foil to Protestants such as Schleiermacher, who rooted Jewish difference in a lack...

Digital Reading Culture from the Perspective of Media Technology

Nowadays, digital reading is developing rapidly. From the traditional paper book to the first e-book, various forms of e-reading coexist. Thanks to the continuous upgrading of media technology, the reading culture also changes and develops constantly. It can be said that media technology determines the reading culture and even affects the general social culture. The arrival of the "big read era", the audience's reading habits from the "print" paper reading turned to the digital reading, The reading culture of the online reading community in the digital media era is constantly changing with the changes of the times, A digital culture that is gradually transforming into digital reading, and new media technology has bred a new reading culture.

ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ МОДЕЛИ ЧТЕНИЯ В ЦИФРОВОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ

The article explores the transformation of the traditional reading model in the conditions of the modern information society and digital culture. The author considers the problem in the anthropological aspect as a radical cognitive restructuring of reading perception and modernization of reading practices. This requires a revision of the essential concepts of the reading theory and of methodological approaches to their study. Firstly, this concerns texts that change their nature in the digital environment and acquire a multimodal polycode character. Changing the medium and the way in which it is recorded leads to a change from linear, sequential reading to a parallel, divergent way of reader’s thinking, which significantly affects the depth of attention and understanding of the text. In this regard, researchers note the gradual replacement of slow, thoughtful reading by widely used scanning techniques, superficial search reading that realizes specific pragmatic goals. The modern reading model replaces the traditional, consolidating function with a differentiating one, related to the stratification of the readership and the formation of different reading subcultures and online reading communities. Internet reading, which is especially popular among young people, is becoming “social”, aiming at active online communication and the creation of its own fanfiction content. This removes the institutional distance between the author and the reader, and significantly changes the status position of reading, which loses its role as a terminal value and becomes a secondary, collateral occupation. Reader differentiation is also evident in the mental digital generational divide; reading practices of adherents of the traditional reading model become increasingly elitist in today’s socio-cultural context. This gap is exacerbated by the current trend towards the visualisation of reading, which accelerates perception of information but negates essential reading competencies. The transformation of the reading model has deep historical roots and is legitimate, so the reader’s ability to be “multitextual”, i.e. to switch to different modes of perception, choosing different reading strategies depending on the text and the situations, is important today This can be facilitated by education and book publishing that adapt to the characteristics of the new reading model.

Veterum vestigia patrum: The Greek Patriarchs in the Manuscript Culture of Early Medieval Europe

This article draws attention to the availability of Latin translations of Greek patristic literature in western reading communities before the year 800 through a survey of the contents of hundreds of surviving manuscripts from the Merovingian and Carolingian periods. An examination of the presence of the translated works of eastern church fathers in the 8th-century florilegium known as The Book of Sparks ( Liber scintillarum) and monastic library catalogs from the early 9th century corroborates the impression left by the manuscript evidence. Taken together, these sources allow us to gauge the popularity of particular eastern authors among Latin readers in early medieval Europe and to weigh the influence and importance of Greek patristics in the western monastic tradition.

How Fantasy Speaks to Adolescent Readers

Many genres of fictional novels are considered groundbreaking for complex plots and psychologically interesting characters. Little attention has been focused on how fantasy can be groundbreaking. This exploratory case study centers on how the five-novel series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, and its five-part sequel The Heroes of Olympus, speaks to a reading community of eighth grade female adolescent readers. This study traces the development of social inquiries of gender inequality, heroism and imperfection, and good and evil from these readers’ interactions with characters and events in the world of Percy Jackson.

Exploration of Influencing Factors on Mechanism of Chinese Users' Continuous Trust in Transactional Virtual Community

This paper studies the formation path of user trust in transactional virtual community, explores the relationship between website perception, merchant reputation and user's personal trust tendency and user's initial trust, and introduces the characteristics of internet word of mouth and sense of virtual community into the analysis framework from initial trust to continuous trust. This research used a quantitative design by developing questionnaires to collect data through the snowball sampling approach from 390 Chinese users of the well-known transactional virtual communities as research population, such as JD community, Dianping community, Tmall community, Xiaomi Forum, Dangdang - online reading community, etc. The results show that users' website perception, merchant reputation and personal trust tendency these three factors have significant positive effects on the formation of initial trust of users. And merchant reputation played the most important role in influencing initial trust of users than any two factors, followed by user's trust tendency and website perception. Besides, initial trust of users was shown to has a significant positive effect on continuous trust of users in transactional virtual community. Furthermore, the characteristics of internet word of mouth was found have significant mediation effect on initial trust and continuous trust of users. More specifically, 41.7% of the influence of the initial trust on the continuous trust was due to the internet word-of-mouth. The findings of this study provide transactional virtual community marketers and managers’ valuable insights into developing effective marketing strategies to improve their community’s service.

A COMUNIDADE BOOKTUBE E O PROEJA: UMA PROPOSTA DE INTERVENÇÃO PEDAGÓGICA

This article has as main objective to discuss some aspects about the booktube community as an incentive for literary reading. In addition, we intend to discuss the role played by these communities in the content production and sharing process. For the development of the investigation, we started from the understanding of booktube as a community, which make videos about books, and reading to disseminate on the Youtube platform. In this sense, we proposed, in Portuguese Language and Literature classes, the role of students as booktubers, performing activities of reading, production and sharing of texts on the Youtube platform. Access to reading communities, as well as the production of literary reviews to be made available on the web, seemed to arouse students, in addition to curiosity, desire and motivation for content production, inciting connection with new friends, colleagues, fans and digital influencers.

A Critical Study of the Designation of Chapter as Ti by Asante – Twi Bible Readers

Bible reading is one of the purposeful activities Christians and users of the Bible engage in it to learn the word of God as well as learning new vocabularies of their native language, especially when they read in their mother-tongue. Asante-Twi Bible readers and users have designated ti for “chapter” in the reading of the Asante-Twi Bible. However, this does not carry the literal meaning of the text; thereby, not helping Asante-Twi Bible users to access the literal and right meaning for “chapter” in the Asante-Twi language. Using the analytical method in reading, this article argues that Asante-Twi Bible users should read chapter as ɔfa, for it carries the literal meaning of the text. Aside helping Asante-Twi Bible users to identify and ascertain the meaning of “chapter” in their language, which builds their vocabulary, it helps them to get the literal and right meaning of the text. The designation of ɔfa for “chapter” by Asante-Twi Bible users and readers keeps them from the “shock of recognition” of carrying a different meaning; it carries the literal and right meaning for “chapter” in the Asante-Twi language. This study has thus added an Akan meaning and translation of “chapter” to the knowledge of Bible reading in Akan, in general, and the Asante-Twi Bible reading communities, in particular. It is being recommended that Asante-Twi Bible users and readers should designate “chapter” as ɔfa in Bible reading which is done either silently or aloud at church, in their homes, or where ever, especially during church services, family devotions, or wherever, for academic and or spiritual purposes. Keywords: Asante-Twi Bible reading, Analytical Method, Chapter, Ti, and Ɔfa