new revised New World Translation

by isaacaustin 75 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

  • digderidoo
    digderidoo

    What do the brackets mean? Does it mean the word ' other ' has been added?

    Paul

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    YES, BRACKETS MEAN THEY ARE NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT, BUT HAVE BEEN ADDED

  • MeneMene
    MeneMene

    The copy I have is Revision 1970. At the end of the Foreword it explains the brackets:

    " [ ] Brackets enclose words inserted to complete the sense to the English text; [[ ]] suggest interpolations in original text."

  • easyreader1970
    easyreader1970

    The new version also has some more reference information in the back. I am not sure how useful it is as I have not looked at it but I know that it is there.

  • sir82
    sir82

    I don't get it.

    The hardback version has brackets.

    The paperback version has the same brackets.

    Where exactly is the controversy?

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    the newest paperback version (released in the past yr or so) allegedly does not have the brackets. This has not been scanned and posted on here. If someone can scan Col 1:15-19 from the newest paperback version of the NWT that would be helpful.

  • blondie
    blondie

    sir82 is an active jw with access to the current pubs. isaac have you see the bracketless bible?

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    going off this thread, as well as the word of a friend of mine...

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    so no i have not personally seen this

  • CharlieBrownsLovelyDaughter
    CharlieBrownsLovelyDaughter

    I can not provide a scan.

    The 2006 softcover NWT includes the word other but it is not bracketed in Col 1.

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