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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2018 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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  Thank you, millie. Are you still attending?
  
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  Robert Alter Completes his New Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 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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  Wonderment, building on and supplementing SBF's comment on shālach at Ex. 8:1, notes how a minority of translators render that verb as "send" while the majority prefer "let go."
  

  The fact is that the word shālach can have both English meanings. While those two connotations may look different in English, that is not the case in Hebrew. In order for English speakers to see the semantic domain (range of meaning) of the word in Heb., consider "send" in the sense of "send away, dismiss." Once one does that, the at-first-glance difference in English between the two options "send" and "let go" melts away. If Moses is to tell Pharaoh "send my people away" or "dismiss my people," then isn't that the same thing as "let my people go"?

  The overall meanings of shālach in the Theological Wordbook of the OT are given as "send, send away, let go" (2.927). That it can mean "expel" is clear from Gen. 3:23, Adam and Eve expelled from Eden, and from Deut. 22:19, 29, a man divorcing or sending away his wife. Isn't Pharaoh supposed to "expel" the Israelites from his domain?
  

  It is noteworthy that the English translator of the LXX in the NETS version did not simply use "send" (which would be a translation of pempō) at Ex. 8:1, but "send ... away," from exapostellō. The literally meaning of it is "send forth, send away, dismiss." It is found in the Gen. 3 and Deut. 22 passages above for the Heb. shālach. Also on point is Jerome's translation of shālach at Ex. 8:1 in the Vulgate: dimitte, from demittō, from which comes our English "dismiss."

  I hope this clears things up. It really is a false dichotomy to pit "send" against "let go" in Exodus 8:1 because translators there do not simply render shālach as "send" but as "send ... away," what the NWT reads, as do Robert Young and George Ricker Berry in his Hebrew interlinear (1897). A check of Fox and Alter (unavailable to me) here might well turn up the same.
  
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  New rules for child sexual abuse?

  by formerministerial in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  a european jehovah's witness, who served in an important branch, has sent me the following rumor.. some serious sources are mentioned.

  it clearly shake my perspective of what is going to happen in the coming months.. i'm totally shocked !.

  the law firm managing all the interests of the wt has studied the problem in europe on data protection and actions on files and protocols of child abuse.

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  It looks like something a lawyer would recommend. Now whether the GB will follow this advice is another story...
  
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  Catholic Church using Bankruptcy for Sexual-Assault cases

  by Wonderment in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  https://www.wsj.com/articles/catholic-church-used-bankruptcy-for-sexual-assault-cases-now-others-are-following-suit-11545906600.

  in the link above, the article on wall street journal deals with the catholic church using bankruptcy for sexual-assault cases.

  is the watchtower next?.

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  Perhaps, but it would mean that they would have to admit openly that they are being sued, in large numbers, over this issue, the very thing they are trying to hide from the R&F.

  Hmmm...
  
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  Robert Alter Completes his New Translation of the Hebrew Scriptures

  by fulltimestudent in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the 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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  He has also written a book about his translation entitled The Art of Bible Translation, due out in March:

  https://www.amazon.com/Art-Bible-Translation-Robert-Alter/dp/0691181497
  
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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2018 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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  The big jump in the number of baptisms in 2017—isn't that because of the push to baptize children? It can't be coming from real newbies, at least not in the western lands where growth is so stagnant.

  If it's already gone down a bit (according to the 2018 stats), it may be because they're running out of in-house kiddies. Maybe they'll drop the age even further now to pump the the numbers up again? Infant baptism is next?
  
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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2018 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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  Rules & Regs,

  Thanks for the analysis!

  dropoff,

  They just could not bring themselves to list so many zeros. After all, "that would be discouraging to the brothers."

  JB,

  "clearly a minus"— now that would really "discouraging to the brothers." They can't have that!
  
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  2018 Service Year Report up

  by Gayle in

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  2. friends

  https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/2018-service-year-report/.

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  Already posted with many more comments here:

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/6037635270180864/2018-service-year-report-released-on-jw-org
  
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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2018 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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  JWGB,

  over 10 million Bible studies each month!

  How many are really "return visits" now renamed "doorstep Bible Studies"?

  Now THAT'S fudging the figures.
  
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  2018 Service Year Report - Released on jw.org

  by Drearyweather in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  2018 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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  Mexico has more congs than the US. Is that the first time that has occurred?