It was mixed with a 1940 sex guide and a 1951 dirty joke book.
Look what I found in a burned out builidng
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donuthole
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mouthy
Well you will get a laugh out of all of them....
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sir82
I think that's from the early 40's right?
IIRC, it's one of the "transition" books from Rutherford's bombastic style to the somewhat more calm Knorr/Franz style.
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clarity
Donut .... lucky find?
Anyway that you could post some of it for us? Sounds interesting.
What is the publishing date .... think it's before my time
clarity
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donuthole
Copyright is 1942 and so we are moving into the Knorr/Franz era. It has some color picture inserts of beardless Jesus. I'll post some scans.
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donuthole
I scanned the full color inserts.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/106061713293773489570/posts/gMnQavicZEm
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clarity
Thanks a lot .... was #4 supposed to be Job laying down? Who was the person with white scarf wrapped around him?
Funny baptism scene .... strange stance of the baptiser, what's he doing with his arms?
Any interesting statements/doctrine that you can see?
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donuthole
That is a picture of Job. The guy with the white scarf would probably be Elihu.
In the baptism painting, John the baptizer is cupping his ear -- perhaps to hear God's declaration from the heavens. This is my write up on that panel:
" This painting from the 1942 book The New World comes at the tail end of an interesting time period of Jehovah's Witness history when the re-branded religion was trying to distinguish itself from other Christian denominations. It is during this period that the religion discontinued celebration of holidays like Christmas and no longer used the image of the cross, claiming that Jesus was was impaled on a stake with no crossbeam. For a time, Jesus was routinely drawn in a manner that was radically different from normal depictions of him used by other churches. He was depicted with an athletic build, without a beard and looking every bit the picture of a well-groomed modern man -- almost like a Aryan poster boy. As a side point, the then president of the Watchtower society, J.F. Rutherford personally detested beards (such as that worn by his predecessor Charles Russell) and made all Witnesses serving in an official capacity shave them off. This too may figure into the beardless Jesus anomaly. Later in the 1950's publications Jesus would get his beard back, but keep his muscled build and short hair -- though the hair style would change according to modern styles."