Jeffro, That was amazing.
Thank you for sharing all your hard work with us.
Just Lois
God's Word for Us Through Jeremiah - Review
by Jeffro 27 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Jeffro
Comatose:
it is funny they leave out the chapter regarding the 70 yrs.
They don't leave out the chapter altogether, just the most inconvenient verse.
They do also distort the context of Jeremiah 29:10 though.
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mP
Even parts of Revelation relate to actual history , albeit abstractly. However, it was about the Jewish Christians' view of the Romans , and not about anything now . Dude.
mP:
All revelation is contemporary history and wishful vengeance. There is no attempt at prophecy in the text. People just dont want to accept hte simple answer and continue to redefine words to make their time special.
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Julia Orwell
It will be interesting to read the scriptures which have been totally silenced in this publication. That Jeremiah book is a thinly veiled book of Mao Thought.
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Jeffro
Julia Orwell:
It will be interesting to read the scriptures which have been totally silenced in this publication. That Jeremiah book is a thinly veiled book of Mao Thought.
More than likely, at least some of the omissions, are simply because the content is just too boring, even by JW standards.
You can bet that the inconvenient bits are left out deliberately though.
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slimboyfat
It looks like they gave up around chapter 40.
Jeremiah is a notoriously jumbled book of the Bible, and has an extremely complicated textual history, that even real Bible scholars find difficult to grapple with.
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Jeffro
slimboyfat:
It looks like they gave up around chapter 40.
Yeah. I noticed that when I was compiling the data. I think they realised they were getting close to their page limit or something. Maybe they could have focused more on the rest of Jeremiah if they didn't use a whole chapter to quash any lingering ambition 'faithful' JWs might have left.
Jeremiah is a notoriously jumbled book of the Bible, and has an extremely complicated textual history, that even real Bible scholar find difficult to grapple with.
Indeed. Much of what is in the modern book was added and/or edited much later than the traditional time of writing.
The Septuagint version is also significantly different, and appears to be closer to an earlier original text. 'Co-incidentally' it is less specific about various things, such as the '70 years'.
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slimboyfat
The whole of chapter 47 is completely ignored, is that right? And most of chapter 48 too. That's a pretty big chunk.
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slimboyfat
Whoever handled the assignment probably gave up around chapter 40 out of utter boredom. Apart from chapter 45 that seems to be their favourite for some reason. Oh yeah that's the part where they get to browbeat the faithful for seeking "great things" for themselves.
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St George of England
The last time they tried to explain Jer 25:12 as far as I can remember is this twaddle from 1979:-
*** w79 9/15 pp. 23-24 par. 10 The “Cup” That All Nations Must Drink at God’s Hand ***
10 The Persian conqueror of Babylon, Cyrus the Great, did not restore the kingdom of the family of David to Jerusalem. It is true that he conquered Gentile Babylon in 539 B.C.E., or about two years before the “seventy years” of desolation of the land of Judah ran out. He proclaimed himself “king of Babylon” and at first did not alter the policy of the Babylonian dynasty of King Nebuchadnezzar. Thus the nations subjugated by Nebuchadnezzar continued to serve “the king of Babylon” 70 years. First in the 70th year of the desolation of Judah did Cyrus the Great release the exiled Jews from their direct servitude to the king of Babylon and let them return home to rebuild their desolated country and their national capital Jerusalem and its temple. (Ezra 1:1 through 3:2) In this way Jehovah called to the account of the Babylonians “their error” that they had committed against the God of Israel.—Jer. 25:12.George