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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this eqation? (Paul=Jesus)
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 16:29:18 EDT
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In article <2013@sdcc6.UUCP> ix415@sdcc6.UUCP (Rick Frey) writes:
> ...  The Jehovah's Witnesses,
> however, have their own translation that continually contradicts
> accepted, standard translations by experts in both Greek and Hebrew.
> One of the founders of the JW's (Charles Taz Russel  sp?) was convicted
> of perjury when he lied under oath that he could both read and write
> Hebrew.  He and another man whose name I forget both claimed to be the
> scholars that originated the New World Translation, but Russel was
> proven in a courtroom to have not even the most rudimentary knowledge of
> Hebrew.  Is this a Fundamentalist?  I hope the respect you have for them
> is very odd.

When I mentioned this exerpt to the JW here at work, he brought in the
79 Yearbook of the JW's.  It claims that no perjury occurred, and that
the accusation of perjury (which they say was about Greek, not Hebrew)
was supported only by a misquotation of a J. J. Ross.  However, they admit
Russel had no knowledge of Greek or Latin.

He also pointed out that Russell died in 1916, and that the New World
Translation came out between 1950 and 1960.  Do you have any more
information about translation claims or other perjury?
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh