Jehovah in the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures
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A study of the Watchtower Society's supposed restoration of the name Jehovah in the version of the New Testament used by all Jehovah's Wiitnesses.
Robert Crompton
I've worked in the chemical industry and in townplanning. I've been a barman and a parson. I suppose I have been a historian as well because my first book, Counting the Days to Armageddon, was a history of a fringe religious group. But at heart I'm a storyteller.
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Jehovah in the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures - Robert Crompton
Jehovah
in the New World Translation of the
Christian Greek Scriptures
Robert Crompton
Published by Robert Crompton at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Robert Crompton
Introduction
The following pages, which I originally wrote about sixteen years ago, were intended as part of what was to be a follow-up book to my Counting the Days to Armageddon. My writing, however, took a different direction and the book which I had planned was never completed. At that time there was little opportunity to publish a work of this brevity so the manuscript sat in a drawer untouched. Ebooks have changed the world of publishing completely so I can now make this study available to a wider readership.
In preparing the work for publication now, I have left it largely unchanged from its original form. I hope that readers may find it a useful tool in beginning to understand some of the issues involved in translation and interpretation of the Bible.
Hallowed be Your Name
Jehovah's Witnesses beliefs concerning God, Jesus Christ and the Trinity cannot be separated from what they believe about the divine name, Jehovah. Their use of the name is a distinctive characteristic of the movement and one which has given the impression to some people that they have elevated the Old Testament to a higher position than the New. Put this alongside their opponents' insistence that they are not Christian and it is hardly surprising that there are some people in the mainstream denominations who have come to suppose that they do not use the New Testament at all.
The Watch Tower Society's teaching concerning the importance of knowing and using the divine name, Jehovah, has received particular emphasis from the time of Joseph Rutherford's presidency (1916-1942) onwards, although the basic doctrine was expounded by Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Watch Tower
The faithful ones now on earth, who are in the covenant with God, must maintain their integrity by a full and complete devotion to God. He now commands them to be his witnesses and tell the people that he is God... The people must shortly come to know the great truth that 'Blessed is the nation whose God is JEHOVAH.' (1. emphasis original)
By now the time has come for his name to be declared throughout all the earth, and for that reason these great truths are now being brought to the attention of the people, by the Lord's grace. (2)
Between the dates of these two quotations the Bible Students, as they had been known from the earliest years of Russell's leadership, adopted the name