by dgp 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I will very much appreciate help with this.
We know that the Watchtower has translated the Bible to many languages. But I remember that Ray Franz mentions how witnesses in Africa carried Bibles in several African languages, and those were translations made by other Christians. Is that still the case? Does anyone know if they are still using Bibles that are not the New World Translation?
Thanks in advance.
I can tell you of my personal experience here in Europe. Before mid'90s JW had to use another well-known translation, since the NWT wasn't available in our language. Then the NWT for Greek Scriptures was issued first, so they would still use the other Bible translation when referring to Hebrew Scriptures. Now that the entire NWT is available, they no longer use the other translation.
The NWT (in whole or part) has been translated into something like 70 or 80 languages. In contrast, there are a couple hundred languages, IIRC, that the Watchtower magazine is translated into.
So, for many languages, something other than a NWT must be used.
However, for probably 90% of the JW population, the NWT is available and so used almost exclusively.
Before the NWT been available, usually their country's own traditional Protestant Bible translations were used. Other Bible translations is used today in Watchtower : for example, when they curse Catholics , they use the Catholic translation , etc. . but most JW individuals usually don't use other than the NWT. Sometimes a few fanatical JW acquire many other Bible translation , to then online pompously shout: " well, even that support us ! " (in some particular verses)
Thanks for your answers, NobleHeart, sir82 and aqwsed12345.
One more question: Does the foreword of those translations is the same as the foreword on the English NWT? We had a discussion on this on this thread:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/205307/1/NWT-Foreword-in-other-languages
Thanks in advance.
