Posts by Caminante

after reading a few comments here, i thought it was time for me to get a copy of "the silver sword" for my own occasional research and occult practices.

so i thought i would see if jw.org would offer a way that i could purchase a printed copy (not digital) of the new world translation.

as i browsed, it occurred to me that i might also like to have a copy of the... what was it?

The revised New World Translation and even some languages where their translation of the 1984 NWT (bi12) is being bound with similar gray deluxe covers are printed in-house at Wallkill, New York, and Ebina, Japan. Christian Greek Scriptures are printed as softcover books at any of the organization's printing branches.

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When did WT recently change the Insight on the Scriptures -- that 31 year old Bible encyclopedia?

by FatFreek 2005 in

i would like to pinpoint when watchtower made a dramatic backward editorial change in their 31 year old insight on the scriptures, their flagship bible encyclopedia.

below, number 1 quotes the insight book as it appeared in the original release back in june 1988.. 1.

“this is also illustrated by what happened to the cities of sodom and gomorrah and their inhabitants.

Caminante

The "Insight" volumes were revised twice. First of all, the electronic version was updated in 2015, then last year, the printed version was also updated, and the PDF's of the recomposed books are available on jw.org.

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Jehovah's Witnesses admit child sex abuse by Elders

by Not_Culty in

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Caminante

The 1986 Watchtower article speaks about certain Governing Body members who had to resign due to rumored sinful practices: Leo Greenlees and Ewart Chitty.

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Tony Morris Talk: "This Is It!"

by pale.emperor in

can anyone direct me to the tony "tightpants" morris talk he gave in the agm where he revealed the new king of the north?

i'm told via the jw grapevine it was entitled "this is it!"..

is there a video?

Caminante

https://tv.jw.org/#en/mediaitems/LatestVideos/pub-jwb_201901_3_VIDEO

Tony's talk starts around at the 49:30 mark.

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Pure Worship restored only for English-speaking?

by AlexPancho in

gb recent presents new book "based ezekiel" - pure worship restored.this book also provide into jw-borg site and jw-lib too, but only english.as examle, spanish - it`s second largest language into us and america continents, but has no translated into it.do you have any idea why this could happen?

they hide something, or just did not have time to translate (but previously published in all major languages at the same time).

Caminante

There isn't any official explanation about the fact that it's English only, but translating the Pure Worship book into other languages is not a zero-priority, because evidently it will be studied after the Jesus--The Way book, which is due to 2021 (I don't remember the exact date, but I saw it in a letter somewhere).

Spanish and German editions of the Silver Sword are planned for a 2019 release, so obviously the Pure Worship book we be released after that in those languages.

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Revised NWT in French released yesterday

by careful in

https://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .

it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..

is the german next?.

Caminante

@Earnest: all the Bible books, even those without the study notes have been added to the Study Bible just to make them "available" and to be able to set the Study Bible as the default Bible translation on JW.org. But the study notes for the entire Bible will be released in 10-15 years or so.

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Revised NWT in French released yesterday

by careful in

https://www.jw.org/en/whats-new/revised-nwt-released-french/ .

it looks like it may only be available electronically, that is, no printed version(?)..

is the german next?.

Caminante

So yes, Appendixes C are only in the Study Bible. The English version of the Study Bible has only the first five books of the Greek Scriptures released (the four Gospels and Acts), and evidently the study notes for further books will be released in due time when the given Bible books will be considered for weekly Bible reading in the midweek meeting. So by end of the year, Romans will be also released. Narkissos: you are right about the shades of blue (on the website; shades of purple in the JW Library app) refering to the categories of books. Indeed, books having the gem icon do have the study notes. Books without the gem icon basically are a clone of the 2013 NWT.