If the photographer arranged to go out with a pioneer it is very likely they had that kind of Bible. I'm just saying, if they did that in my hall, the chance would be greater to see the cover shown than the one on stock NWT's as nearly every pioneer has one like that and many of the publishers do too.
sneaky photo used in the new york magazine story
by Aussie Oz 25 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Cagefighter
I am confused were is this picture from?
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Wasanelder Once
As I understand there are no more deluxe bibles. Everything is paperback. I'm sure they don't last long that way. I had the standard RS/Bible rebind myself. Stoops is making millions I'm sure. Deception? Nah. It's less letters to put HOLY BIBLE than NWT written out. Saves on silver leaf I suspect. Higher prophet margin.
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Mad Sweeney
In fairness, it is a translation of "The Holy Bible",
For clarification, the New World "Translation" is a VERSION and NOT a translation AT ALL. Nobody on the translating committee had the linguistic ability to translate any Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek texts. Fred Franz MAY have been able to order food at a Greek restaurant, but that's about it. They created this Bible using English interlinear texts, commentaries, concordances and their own Rutherfordian doctrines.
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BurnTheShips
NWT is the best rolling papers you will find.
BTS
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NiceDream
Anyone else have a ninja JW bible with a Reasoning Book in the back?
I do Then we had a talk about how it's bad to have the Reasoning book bound with the Bible because people might think we added to the Bible. Oh the irony!
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Mad Sweeney
BTS, that's awesome! I have been wondering what to do with several old NWT Bibles. Maybe I should take up the ganja and take in the holy spirit via respiration!
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Cagefighter
BTS... I called it the "Jesus Joint" when your out of papers.... you look to the Bible for answers... ha ha.
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wannabefree
Mad Sweeney: You may not like the NWT, but it is a translation.
From "Truth in Translation" ....
Like the NAB, the New World Translation is a product of a single Christian denomination, in this case, Jehovah's Witnesses, through their publishing arm, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York.
Because of its association with the Jehovah's Witnesses, the NW is often and readily pointed to as an example of a translation which must have a theological bias, unlike the supposedly objective, neutral, and scholarly Bibles more widely used today. The attention to bias is heightened by the fact that the theology of hte Jehovah's Witness does not correspond to that of mainstream denominations. This difference creates a hostile atmosphere in which representatives of that mainstream theology charge that any variation in the NW from more familiar translations must serve the ulterior motives of distorting the "truth". But the facts are that all of the translations considered in this book are products of people with theological commitments, that ll contain biased translations of one sort or another, and the NW deserves to be assessed for accuracy by the same standards applied to others.
The NW's text-base is the Westcott and Hort edition, which is the foundation of modern critical editions, and closely related to the more recent Nestle-Aland and UBS texts. It stays true to this text-base, and does not draw in readings from the inferior traditional text, as happens with the NASB, AB, and LB. The NW is a formal equivalence translation, with occasional ventures into dynamic equivalence where the meaning was felt to be obscured by potential misunderstandings of Greek idiom.
This approach puts the NW very close to the NRSV's principles of "as literal as possible, as free as necessary." But the NW is free of the shadow of King James, and so reads quite differently than the KJV - dependent NRSV. One systematic peculiarity of the NW is the substitution of "Jehovah" for "Lord" in well over two-hundred verses.
The NW New Testament was first published in 1950, and was most recently revised in 1984. The members of the translation team remain anonymous, just as they do for the NKJB and the Lockman Foundation's NASB.
