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The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a Jehovah's Witness convention at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. [34] [35] The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five
The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures is an interlinear translation of the New Testament, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. and translated by the New World Bible Translation Committee. [1] [2] The first edition was released at an international convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1969. [3]
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT), a translation of the Bible published in whole or part in over 130 languages. [7] This is the Bible translation primarily used by Jehovah's Witnesses. Awake!, published in over 100 languages once per year, a general-interest annual magazine covering many topics from a religious perspective.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the entire Bible, including both the Old Testament and the New Testament, is inspired of God and important for the Christian faith.(2 Timothy 3:16,17) Witnesses generally use a translation of the Bible that they developed in the mid-twentieth century, known as the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT).
Jehovah's Witnesses consider the Bible to be scientifically and historically accurate and reliable [51] and interpret much of it literally, while also accepting it contains much symbolism. [52] Jehovah's Witnesses base all of their beliefs on the Bible, as interpreted by the Governing Body. [53]
The Message is a reading Bible translated from the original Greek and Hebrew scriptures and it has been reviewed and approved by 20 biblical scholars, according to The Message website ...
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination. [8] The group grew out of the Bible Student movement founded by Charles Taze Russell in the nineteenth century. [3] In 2024, Jehovah's Witnesses reported a peak membership of approximately 9 million worldwide.
The Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures renders the tetragrammaton as Jehovah throughout the Old Testament, and it uses the form Jehovah in the New Testament including — but not limited to — passages quoting the Old Testament even though it does not appear in the Greek text.