ASL Nook - The Night Before Christmas in ASL
YWYancy W. Smith, PhD · Apr 22, 2014, 7:34 PM · Last modified: Sep 28, 2026, 11:37 AM
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Wow. I've been thinking about this since you showed me. I feel like modern Bible readers (even us Hebrew and Greek nerds) are this little girl when reading biblical poetry in translation. We have never heard the psalms just like she's never heard A Visit from St. Nicholas (BTW, the title is not "Twas the Night Before Christmas"). We are deaf children when we modern westerners engage biblical poetry. We can't hear the original poetic devices so we have to make up our own. I wonder if we are brave enough to translate "visions of sugar plums danced in their heads" as "the children dreamed of eating candies" with confidence.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/54306/9-reasons-little-girls-sign-language-version-twas-night-christmas-great