a normal person, upon hearing that a new (or revised) bible translation has been released, would have 2 questions spring to mind almost immediately:.
1) who did the work, and what are their credentials?.
2) what manuscripts is the work based on?.
wasblind:
I have to disagree wit you there Jeffro
You're welcome to disagree. But it's fairly evident that they've just gone through the old NWT and replaced various words and expressions with ones they've deemed more modern. Essentially, similar to their process when they translate the NWT from English into other languages. It doesn't show evidence of retranslation of the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek from scratch.
a normal person, upon hearing that a new (or revised) bible translation has been released, would have 2 questions spring to mind almost immediately:.
1) who did the work, and what are their credentials?.
2) what manuscripts is the work based on?.
It's a revision. It's not a re-translation.
so how high will the jw app climb up the app store download charts on monday?.
will it be high enough to register on any third party lists of what's hot?.
can you imagine what the wts would make of it being on the front page of the app store?.
cantleave:
So I can't get it for my Nokia Windows phone - gutted :-)
It's also available (or will be available) for Windows 8 mobile. Lucky you.
so how high will the jw app climb up the app store download charts on monday?.
will it be high enough to register on any third party lists of what's hot?.
can you imagine what the wts would make of it being on the front page of the app store?.
Faithful Witness:
I'm also willing to bet the blessed app will include some spyware And there will be lots of automatic updates, and maybe they will grant themselves access to your cloud!
You clearly don't understand the application environments of operating systems on mobile devices.
we got home earlier today from celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary.
we had a blast.
walked aroung gatlinberg.
Julia Orwell:
What's the UPC?
We call them barcodes.
according to the live blog: god's will to be completed by the end of the millennium.
very casually said by louche (;-)).
i think this is one of those things that is supposed to rile up the r&f.
Anony Mous:
Except the end of 'this' millenium is another 80-something years away.
so, the english speaking jw world has got the rnwt bible.. so, 60 percent of the non-english jw world still has to to use / read their old nwt bible.. and reads in watchtowers from 2014 on bible text translated from the english rnwt to their language, and mention the changes with their own bible.. this is a very strange situation!.
so, like g. jackson would say, the non-english jw world has to wait for some not so warm summers to keep up with the new rnwt bible.. gorby.
steve2, you have outraged the Whobawooba congregation.
so, the english speaking jw world has got the rnwt bible.. so, 60 percent of the non-english jw world still has to to use / read their old nwt bible.. and reads in watchtowers from 2014 on bible text translated from the english rnwt to their language, and mention the changes with their own bible.. this is a very strange situation!.
so, like g. jackson would say, the non-english jw world has to wait for some not so warm summers to keep up with the new rnwt bible.. gorby.
Gorbatchov:
And reads in Watchtowers from 2014 on bible text translated from the English RNWT to their language, and mention the changes with their own bible.
If they're reading The Watchtower in a language other than English, it would be quoting from the NWT in that language, so the revision of the English version isn't relevant. The only exceptions would be for languages in which the NWT isn't available at all, and those issues of the magazines generally quote from another translation in the same language.
so who here wants to run an experiment?
if you still attend the meetings, are you willing to cling to the "old" new world translation?.
keep using it in front of all of the rest of the cultists.
LostGeneration:
It will raise more than an eyebrow, more like the ire of the entire BOE. These tools are bent on uniformity at the cost of individualism in all cases. They have already stated that starting with the Jan WT all articles will quote the NEW NWT, so that is the deadline. Keep using the old one after that and you are sure to suffer at least an upturned elderette's nose!
There might be some suggestion that comments at meetings should quote the new version from January onwards. Other than that, it's unlikely to get any attention from the elders. Probably will get the disapproval of the 'elderettes' though. Which is probably a worse fate anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imfuiaeg820.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkjbvfpjpje.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iezhj13pun4.
Cedars, in your article, you state, "it was fairly obvious that he was appealing to a sexist stereotype of women being overly concerned about how an item looks rather than what it does."
However, it's more likely that the intended meaning is that sisters - the 'large army of women' - purportedly do the most preaching, with the implication that they use their Bibles more, and that 'sisterproofing' them is supposed to relate to durability.
