The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures

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The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
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Translator B. F. Westcott
F. J. A. Hort
New World Translation Committee (Anonymous)
LanguageEnglish, Koine Greek
SubjectNew Testament
Publisher Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
Website https://www.jw.org/en/library/bible/kingdom-interlinear-greek-translation

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] As of the 1985 revision, 800,000 copies were produced. [4]

Contents

Contents

The interlinear provides Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort's The New Testament in the Original Greek , published in 1881, [1] [5] with a Watchtower-supplied literal translation under each Greek word. An adjacent column provides the text of the Watch Tower Society's New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures .

Marginal notes refer to various biblical manuscripts and Bible translations. Various appendices provide information about the Greek alphabet and prepositions, maps of Palestine in the first century, and information about editorial decisions relating to the text of the New World Translation. A characteristic of this translation is that the name Jehovah was inserted in the citations to the Hebrew scriptures in which the tetragrammaton is found. [6]

Reception

Thomas Nelson Winter, an instructor of Greek at the University of Nebraska and former president of the Unitarian Church of Lincoln, considered The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures to be a "highly useful aid toward the mastery of koine (and classical) Greek" [2]

Julius R. Mantey stated that the KIT "changed the readings in scores of passages to state what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and teach. That is a distortion not a translation." [7]

According to the February 1, 1998 issue of The Watchtower , Jason BeDuhn ordered copies of the KIT for his students at Indiana University Bloomington, and wrote that "it is the best interlinear New Testament available". [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 Paul, William E. (2003). English Language Bible Translators. McFarland & Company. pp. 127–128. ISBN   9780786414253.
  2. 1 2 Winter, Thomas N (April 1974). "Reviewed Work: The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures by New World Bible Translation Committee". The Classical Journal. University of Nebraska: The Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Inc. (CAMWS). 69 (4): 375–376. JSTOR   3295986.
  3. ↑ "Basis for the New World Translation". The Watchtower. December 15, 1970. p. 758.
  4. ↑ The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures. Watch Tower Society. p. 4. OCLC   75462.
  5. ↑ Ortlepp, Stephen (2011). "Translation Method". Introduction to the Interlinear Bible. Lulu.com. p. 143. ISBN   978-1445277899.
  6. ↑ Robert J. Wilkinson (2015). Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God: From the Beginnings to the Seventeenth Century. BRILL. p. 93. ISBN   978-9004288171.
  7. ↑ Julius Robert Mantey, Depth Exploration in the New Testament, Vantage Press, 1980, ISBN   0533045355, pp. 136–137
  8. ↑ ""It Is the Best Interlinear New Testament Available"". The Watchtower. Watch Tower Society. February 1, 1998. p. 32.
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