I bought his Genesis when it came out - excellent, especially the explanatory notes. He has a good eye for the structure of stories, foreshadowing, and repetition. The sort of things not often analysed in a Watchtower study. And he supports the NWT in some renderings too, such as Exodus 8:1 “send”, if I remember correctly.
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Robert Alter Completes his New Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures
by fulltimestudent inthe jewish telegraphic agency comments on alter's translation:.
https://www.jta.org/2018/11/21/culture/robert-alter-completes-monumental-translation-hebrew-bible.
translation is not an easy task.
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Are these books worth anything?
by moomanchu in23 years out and i'm still purging this trash.
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i still have 1 box of jw stuff left.. .
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slimboyfat
Decades worth of single magazines would be worth a bit especially if complete.
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Are these books worth anything?
by moomanchu in23 years out and i'm still purging this trash.
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i still have 1 box of jw stuff left.. .
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slimboyfat
Bible + “make sure” book bound together is a slight oddity that might be worth a couple of dollars. Not much, but the rest not really worth anything.
Most people won’t have old publications, but a few recent publications/ephemera might not thing of can be worth a couple of dollars: Proclaimers book, Aid, Kingdom Interlinear, Byington, Diaglott, pioneer book, elder book, assembly programs, assembly badges, Kingdom ministries, forms, letters, food tickets, scripture banners, cart banners, Kingdom news (!) issues, anything in foreign languages, branch guides, dedication programs, among other things worth looking out for.
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Are these books worth anything?
by moomanchu in23 years out and i'm still purging this trash.
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slimboyfat
Not worth anything, but I am curious what the book beneath the blue Creation and old songbook is.
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Cambridge professor just went full retard ...
by LoveUniHateExams inever heard of david runciman?.
he's a professor of politics at the university of cambridge, no less.. he's also a complete retard, for want of a better word.
according to prof. runciman, six year old children should get the vote, so as to counteract britain's aging population.
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slimboyfat
Children pay taxes if they earn money, as far as I am aware, such as is the case with child actors and so on.
It was you who first wrote:
on the basis that children (in this case 6 year olds) aren't legally responsible for what they say or do
The age is 10 in England according to government website.
https://www.gov.uk/age-of-criminal-responsibility
Why should minors not be allowed to vote? My best reasons are that 1) generally they are not interested voting 2) if they did vote they would just do what others suggest and 3) they don’t understand many of the issues.
On the other hand you could say much the same about many adults. So are they good enough reasons? Or are there better reasons? I don’t know but I think it’s an interesting idea, without needing to call anyone regard.
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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org
by Drearyweather in2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
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slimboyfat
It’s annoying not to have to average publisher number for historical comparison, but the peak figure it still useful. It is more volatile than the average figure, but in the long term it evens out. So for any given year the average figure would be more acccurate to have, but in the long term the peak figure reveals the same trend.
To be clear JWs are doing much better than most churches. The latest Church of Scotland Yearbook has just been published for example. Get a load of this. Their latest membership figure is 337,000, which is down from 661,000 in 1997.
By contrast Jehovah’s Witnesses in Britain grew from 132,000 in 1997 to 139,000 in 2017.
So while the Church of Scotland declined by 49%(!) JWs continued to grow modestly and added 5%.
I don’t know of any other significant Christian denomination in the UK (apart from churches that comprise mostly immigrants) that has grown at all over the last 20 years.
I suspect that JWs will begin to decline in the UK, indeed the number of congregations has already begun to decline. But the fact remains that JWs have done incredibly well to defy the trend of secularisation in the UK up to now.
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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org
by Drearyweather in2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
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slimboyfat
It’s still worth noting that, compared with most other religions, JWs are doing pretty well.
Take Britain for example where JWs are still managing to grow a little. This is pretty remarkable in a broader religious perspective when you consider that practically every other denomination is in decline: Anglicans, Church of Scotland, Catholics, Methodists, Mormons, Salvation Army, Brethren, Baptists, Christadelphians, Unitarians. Many denominations are in freefall, having lost 2% or more every singe year for decades. Some are talking about folding their churches as a whole within the next few decades. (The only churches that are growing in Britain are churches that comprise immigrants who have newly arrived from other countries.)
In that context the fact that JWs have managed to grow at all in the last few years is pretty amazing. How much longer can they defy the gravity of general religious decline? On top of general religious decline, they have many internal problems. Who can say what the future holds, but my best guess has to be that they cannot defy gravity much longer. And the signs of decline are already beginning to appear: declining congregation numbers, relying on immigrant groups for growth, cutbacks and branch downscaled, general rhetoric of decline.
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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org
by Drearyweather in2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
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slimboyfat
It’s bizarre that they calculate the percentage increase for each country using a the average publisher number when that figure is not given. Is this just a weird blip, or is there method to their madness?
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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org
by Drearyweather in2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
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slimboyfat
Wow the full numbers are up. Some fascinating developments!
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2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org
by Drearyweather in2018 service year report of jehovah’s witnesses worldwide.
see details of the global preaching work of jehovah’s witnesses from september 2017 to august 2018.. https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.
average publishers preaching each month: 8,360,594 (2017 - 8,248,982).
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slimboyfat
Both average and peak number seem to be up on these figures, no?
By the way, have they really published the average figure this year after dropping it last year? That’s a big improvement, if true.
I hope we still get the country breakdown in due course.