The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) was published by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society in 1961. You can do the math from whatever year you read this answer.
A New Testament bible is not specifically a certain translation. It is just a bible without the old testament. A New International Bible (or NIV) is a certain translation of the bible to make it easier to understand.
Jehovah's Witnesses are use many different Bible translations, since comparing various translations often gets you a better feeling for the original Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York contains contains all 66 canonical books of the Bible.
The New Living Translation of the Bible has 66 books, 39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New; in common with most other Bible translations.
The "official" Catholic version of the Bible is the New Vulgate Bible, which is the official Latin translation of the Sacred Scriptures based on the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation that Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, used when He was quoting from the Old Testament, and from the original Latin translation made by St. Jerome, of the Greek New Testament books.
At the 1604 Hampton Court Conference, King James 1 was persuaded (by moderate puritans) that a new translation of the Bible was needed and ordered work to begin, the translation was completed in 1611.
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures offered by Jehovah's Witnesses. It is extensively researched to be the most accurate and is in plain English as opposed to old English so it is easier to understand.
One of the early translations of the Hebrew Bible (also known as Christian Old Testament) was the Greek Septuagint or "LXX" circa 323 BCE. The first full translation of the whole Christian Bible (Old and New Testaments) was the Vulgate, which was a late 4th-century Latin translation of the Bible largely done by Jerome.
Surprise! The entire "old testament" is the translation of the Hebrew/Jewish Bible.
No. The Christian Bible contains the Hebrew scriptures in what we call the Old Testament. Christ and his teachings and the works of the Apostles are in the New Testament. Additionally, there are translation differences, additions, and order-changes between the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh and the Christian Old Testament.
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The New World Translation (NWT) of Jehovah's Witneses is not a "different bible" but simply one of the many translations of the bible available today. It has the same number of books, in the same order, the same "old" and "new" testament and the same verses as all traditional bibles (see below to see the NWT online). The bible is about how mankind fell into sin and suffering and God's plan to help them.
Its the direct translation of the word Yahweh.