[bar_enosh]

And you possess what scholarship credentials to make that assertion about the NWT?

That’s only one opinion. I prefer the opinion of New Testament scholar and professor Dr. Jason Beduhn, who highly praised the New World Translation in his book “Truth in Translation.” (2003, University Press of America)

The NWT is neither incompetent nor deceitful, but I have read NWT critics whose comments were both.

[aruanan]

And you possess what scholarship credentials to make that assertion about the NWT?

The ability to read koine Greek well enough to see that it's mistranslated, amended, or ignored not at random but in way that favors readings that supports JW doctrine on particular passages. This specificity of practice demonstrates intent to promote a goal. Since the practice is a mistranslation, the goal must be misinformation.

I prefer the opinion of New Testament scholar and professor Dr. Jason Beduhn

He is not a New Testament or Old Testament scholar. His Ph.D. is in Comparative Religious Studies. He is not an expert in Biblical Hebrew or Greek (as evidenced by his treatment of the Granville Sharp rule by misrepresenting what other scholars have said on the subject in order to maintain his own position--similar to what the JW translating committee does in misrepresenting what the Greek NT text says in order to maintain its own doctrinal position). And Beduhn also blasts the JW for the practice of sticking "Jehovah" into places in the New Testament where "Lord" is used. He didn't say that the NWT translation was the best out there but that he liked two translations, one of them the NWT and the other a Catholic translation. So, I guess on that basis you guys would use this Catholic translation because Beduhn gave it his imprimatur.

[Godzilla]

That’s only one opinion. I prefer the opinion of New Testament scholar and professor Dr. Jason Beduhn, who highly praised the New World Translation in his book “Truth in Translation.” (2003, University Press of America)

You know aruanan, you are exactly correct in your opinion of the NWT and fully entitled to make that assertion - you are in good company of many, many greek scholars. BeDuhn only has a masters level experience in greek, intermediate level of competence, his pHD is in comparative religions. His doctoral dissertation was on Manicheaism. That hardly qualifies him as a Greek Scholar. BeDuhn cannot even correctly state the Granville Sharp rule.

As usual and well documented, JWs cite favorable authors regardless of what their greater context is. BeDuhn also had high regard for the Catholic New Jerusalem Bible. They will also ignore that BeDuhn has some pretty harsh criticism toward their use of the name “Jehovah” in the New Testament, something they are particularly proud of.

The NWT is neither incompetent nor deceitful, but I have read NWT critics whose comments were both.

The NWT is inaccurate and heavily theologically influenced, it was the so-called scholars who did the work 'translating' it that were incompetent and deceitful