L’explication que donne l’organisation des critiques adressées à la traduction est qu’elle est attaquée en raison de son éditeur plutôt que de sa valeur savante : ‘the New World Translation is criticized because it is published by Jehovah’s Witnesses, who outspokenly declare that many of Christendom’s doctrines are not found in the Bible.’ [‘la Traduction du monde nouveau est critiquée parce qu’elle est publiée par les Témoins de Jéhovah, qui déclarent ouvertement que beaucoup des doctrines de la chrétienté ne se trouvent pas dans la Bible.’]

The Watchtower, “The “New World Translation”—Scholarly and Honest”

1 mars 1991 · pp.26-30 · pars. 14, 17, 20 (pp. 28-30) · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.

“True, no early surviving Greek manuscript of the “New Testament” contains the personal name of God. But the name was included in the New World Translation for sound reasons, not merely on a whim.”

The article is the organisation’s fullest published answer to the charge that the New World Translation is falsified. It compares the criticism to sixteenth-century attacks on Luther’s Bible, defends the renderings at Luke 23:43 (“Truly I tell you today”), Matthew 26:26 (“This means my body”) and John 1:1 (“the Word was a god”), and answers the objection to the form “Jehovah” by saying that “scholars are by no means in agreement that the form ‘Yahweh’ represents the original pronunciation”. It offers this explanation of the criticism: “the New World Translation is criticized because it is published by Jehovah’s Witnesses, who outspokenly declare that many of Christendom’s doctrines are not found in the Bible.”

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