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Die Bibel und die Übersetzung · Claim record

Die veröffentlichte Antwort der Organisation auf den Vorwurf, die Übersetzer seien nicht qualifiziert gewesen, lautet, sie hätten darum gebeten, anonym zu bleiben, damit die Übersetzung 'exalt the name of the living, true God' möge, und eine Übersetzung sei nach ihren eigenen Merkmalen zu beurteilen und nicht nach den Namen ihrer Übersetzer.

Claim ID claim-bible-org-anonymity-defenceConcerns 15. Oktober 1999Erklärung der Organisation
Erklärung der Organisation · 15. Oktober 1999 Geprüft

Die veröffentlichte Antwort der Organisation auf den Vorwurf, die Übersetzer seien nicht qualifiziert gewesen, lautet, sie hätten darum gebeten, anonym zu bleiben, damit die Übersetzung 'exalt the name of the living, true God' möge, und eine Übersetzung sei nach ihren eigenen Merkmalen zu beurteilen und nicht nach den Namen ihrer Übersetzer. The Watchtower, 15. Oktober 1999The Bible Translator, Juli 1964

Die Position der Organisation oder ihre spätere Erklärung: Dies ist die eigene Erklärung der Organisation, gegeben im Wachtturm vom 15. Oktober 1999, Seiten 28-31, unter Zitierung des Wachtturms vom 15. September 1950 und des Übersetzungswissenschaftlers Alan S. Duthie.

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The Watchtower, “A Milestone for Lovers of God’s Word”

15. Oktober 1999 · pp.28-31 · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

“Just who translated this remarkable Bible? The Watchtower of September 15, 1950, said: “The men who compose the translation committee have indicated their desire . . . to remain anonymous, and specifically do not want their names to be published while they are in life or after death. The purpose of the translation is to exalt the name of the living, true God.” Some critics charged that the work should be summarily dismissed as the product of amateurs, but not all took such an unreasonable stance.”

The article marks the hundred-millionth copy of the translation. It acknowledges that 'upon its release, this translation was subjected to severe criticism', defends the anonymity of the translators by quoting Alan S. Duthie ('If we know who the translators or the publishers of a particular Bible translation are, does it help us to decide whether that translation is good or bad? Not directly. … There is no substitute for examining the characteristics of each translation itself'), and cites the Andover Newton Quarterly of January 1963 for the view that the translation shows 'the presence in the movement of scholars qualified to deal intelligently with the many problems of Biblical translation'.

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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read in full; the quotations were transcribed from the page (w99 10/15 pp. 28-31). [Independent audit, 19 September 2026] Fetched and read again; the quotation is verbatim and the page markers in the HTML (data-no="28" through "31") confirm pp. 28-31. The Duthie quotation in the context field is also verbatim.

Notes. This is the organisation's own statement of why the translators are not named, and its own acknowledgement of the criticism. It is the best single source for the organisation's answer to the 'amateur translators' charge.

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-nwt-w99-milestone

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The Bible Translator, “Book Review: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures”

Juli 1964 · pp.150-152 (quoted passages at pp. 151 and 152) · Bruce M. Metzger · United Bible Societies (published by SAGE; DOI 10.1177/000608446401500311)

“On the whole, one gains a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment of the translators (their names are not divulged). … Frequently an intelligent use of critical information is apparent. (p. 151) … Some of the translations which are simply indefensible include the following. The introduction of the word 'Jehovah' into the New Testament text, in spite of much ingenuity in an argument filled with a considerable amount of irrelevant material (pp. 10-25), is a plain piece of special pleading. (p. 152)”

A signed review of the 1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures in the United Bible Societies' translation journal, running from the heading 'BOOK REVIEW' on p. 150 to the signature 'BRUCE M. METZGER' at the foot of p. 152. It is mixed, not uniformly hostile. Metzger notes the Westcott and Hort Greek text, records that 'one of the most notable features of the translation is the introduction of the name Jehovah 237 times into the main body of the text, as well as 72 times in the footnotes in the lower margin' (p. 151), and allows the translators 'a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment'. He then objects that rendering the same Greek word by the same English word 'has a specious show of faithfulness to the original, but the application of the principle with any degree of consistency tends to produce a certain woodenness' (p. 151); that 'and the Word was a god' at John 1:1, 'while entirely in accord with the Arian theology of the sect, is not justified despite a lengthy note which attempts to support it' (p. 152); and that 'in the interest of providing support for their Unitarianism, the translators have not hesitated to insert four times the word “other” (totally without warrant from the Greek) before the word “things” in Col. 1: 16 f.' (p. 152).

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Hinweis zu Herkunft und Überprüfung

Hinweis zur Vertrauensangabe. Opened and read in full on 19 September 2026 — all three printed pages. journals.sagepub.com still returns HTTP 403 to automated requests and the live ubs-translations.org page now returns HTTP 404, but the Wayback Machine serves the United Bible Societies' own page images of the issue: a150.jpg, a151.jpg and a152.jpg under /tbt/1964/03/. Those three images were downloaded and read, and the quotations above are transcribed from them. The review is signed 'BRUCE M. METZGER'. Crossref independently confirms The Bible Translator vol. 15 no. 3 (July 1964), pp. 150-152, by B. Metzger.

Herkunft des Scans. Page images of the printed journal from the United Bible Societies' own Bible Translator archive at ubs-translations.org, preserved in the Wayback Machine. The review occupies the images a150.jpg, a151.jpg and a152.jpg in /tbt/1964/03/, whose printed page numbers are 150, 151 and 152; the viewer's own index maps image a151.jpg to printed page 151, which is the page the secondary literature cites. The live ubs-translations.org page now returns HTTP 404.

Notes. This record previously said the text could not be opened and that nothing should be quoted from it. [Independent audit, 19 September 2026] It has now been read, and that judgement is reversed. The much-circulated sentence about 'a plain piece of special pleading' is accurate word for word, and it is on p. 152. The citation 'pp. 150-153' that circulates online is wrong: the review ends on p. 152. Note two traps. First, the same three pages contain the favourable sentence that defenders of the translation quote, so a page that uses one half without the other is quoting selectively. Second, Wikipedia's rendering of the p. 151 sentence, 'Frequently an intelligent use of a critical information is apparent', has a stray 'a'; the printed text reads 'an intelligent use of critical information'.

Abgerufen. 19. September 2026 · Quellenkennung. src-nwt-metzger-1964-bible-translator

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