Re: New World Translation

From: Jim West (jwest@Highland.Net)
Date: Wed Mar 24 1999 - 12:04:45 EST


At 05:30 PM 3/24/99 +0100, you wrote:
>I was just wondering if any of you scholars has taken a look at the New
World Translation of the New Testament. I saw an edition that put heavy
emphasis on the translators efforts of being true to the original greek and
the thorough textual criticism that they supposedly used.
>My opinion (and I have only read the swedish NW Translation) us that it
differs somewhat from MY Bible...
>
>Just an interesting question. I have never heard of any well known biblical
scholars from Jehovahs Witnesses.
>
>Henrik

The last paragraph being left aside, I would suggest that the NWT is fairly
tendentious and prone to readings which are not really supportable from the
Greek text. I would hasten to add, however, that this is true of virtually
every translation and so the reader should just simply learn Greek and leave
aside the translations anyway! :-)

Best,

Jim

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