The NWT committee went back to the oldest manuscripts available, and translated into modern English, bypassing other translations completely.Interestingly, due to modern archeological discoveries, the manuscripts that are available now, are older than the ones available when the King James Version was translated, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls that have portions that predate the time of Jesus and the apostles.
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was created in 1961.
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
Jehovah's Witnesses primarily use the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, which is a version of the Bible that has been translated by and for their religious group.
It can.Go to: http://www.watchtower.orgOn right hand side of home page, under 'Read the Bible online', click theNew World Translation of the Holy Scriptures link in blue.
During the time of Martin Luther the New Testament was translated to German around 1500- 1525
The personal name, translated "Jehovah" in English, appears 7,210 times in the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (6,973 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, 237 times in the Greek Scriptures). The title "God" appears several thousand times more.
Close to 1200... you want specific? 1187 chatpers.
Not really sure what the question is but the ''New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures'' is the Bible used by Jehovah's Witnesses.
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.
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures published by the Watchtower Society of Jehovah Witnesses.
New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (and this was the correct answer on the television show: 'Jeopardy' when this very question was asked recently)
From the wikipedia entry''The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960. The complete New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures was released as a single volume in 1961, and has since undergone minor revisions.''