[B-Greek] NWT: Is it an accurate translation of the Greek?

Austin Alexander austinjalexander at gmail.com
Thu Feb 23 15:51:35 EST 2006


Gene,

As many have undoubtedly suggested before (among other things), check out
Wallace's delightfully concise discussion on the matter in his Greek Grammar
Beyond the Basics pp. 266-269.

I follow Wallace's conclusion to be the most appropriate (i.e. taking QEOS
in Jn. 1:1c as "qualitative," the concept of which the NEB, REB, and NET all
attempt to convey).

Hope that helps,

Austin
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> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:07:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: Gene Gardner <g_gardner1234 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] NWT:  Is it  an accurate translation of the Greek?
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> In The New World Translation, John 1:1 is rendered as follows:
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>   Joh 1:1  In  [the]  beginning the Word was,  and the Word was with
> God,  and the Word was a god.
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>   The reason for the rendering of ?a god? is explained
>   in part by the following:
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>   The definite article (the) appears before the first occurrence of
> the?os? (God) but not before the second.
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>   I would like to hear the opinions of the forum as to the accuracy of
> this rendering.
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>   Thanks
>
>   Gene Gardner
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