New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned

The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. and the International Bible Students Association of Brooklyn, New York (corporations in use by the religious organization commonly known as Jehovah's Witnesses). It was not the first, nor the last translation to be published by them, but it was thei ...

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• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History
• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned
• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation
• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The New World Translation in Other Languages
• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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From the publication of the first issue of The Watchtower magazine in 1879, until the release of the NWT in 1950, Jehovah's Witnesses in English-speaking countries generally used the King James Version or the American Standard Version. In the literature they have produced, Jehovah's Witnesses have quoted liberally from the King James Version and many other translations of the Bible over the years. According to the publishers, one of the main reasons for publishing a new translation was that the majority of existing Bible ...

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From the publication of the first issue of The Watchtower magazine in 1879, until the release of the NWT in 1950, Jehovah's Witnesses in English-speaking countries generally used the King James Version or the American Standard Version. In the literature they have produced, Jehovah's Witnesses have quoted liberally from the King James Version and many other translations of the Bible over the years.[citation needed] According to the publishers, one of the main reasons for publishing a new translation was ...

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The New World Translation in Other Languages, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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The New World Translation is intended to be a literal rendering rather than a paraphrase.[citation needed] To a very great extent, one English word has been selected for each Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic word and effort has been made to adhere to this rendering, context allowing. Some maintain that this makes the translation sound wooden, stiff or verbose, whereas others feel that it favors accuracy, facilitates cross-reference w ...

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The New World Translation in Other Languages, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

Read more here: » New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures: Encyclopedia II - New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation

The New World Translation is intended to be a literal rendering rather than a paraphrase. To a very great extent, one English word has been selected for each Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic word and effort has been made to adhere to this rendering, context allowing, and where such would not conflict with their beliefs ([1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]). Some maintain that this makes the translation sound wooden, stiff or verbose, whereas others feel that it favors accu ...

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The New World Translation in Other Languages, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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In October 1946, the president of the Watch Tower Society, Nathan H. Knorr, proposed a fresh translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures. Work got under way on December 2, 1947 when the New World Bible Translation Committee was formed. On September 3, 1949, Knorr convened a joint meeting of the board of directors of both the Watch Tower Society's New York and Pennsylvania corporations to announce that work on a modern-language English translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was completed and had been turned over to the Society ...

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The New World Translation in Other Languages, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures has been released in 53 different languages around the globe. Of those, 33 are complete editions: Afrikaans, Arabic language, Cebuano, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Iloko, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Sesotho, Slovakian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tsonga, Tswana, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu. The Christian Greek Scriptures of the Holy Scriptures is availa ...

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New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Why a New Translation Was Commissioned, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - Characteristics of the Translation, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The New World Translation in Other Languages, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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