Tradition Trumps Truth: Jehovah - The Recovery's Misnomer - Tomes

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Originally Posted by Freedom

With all the popular Bible translations out there, I am fairly certain that ever single version besides the RcV had numerous scholars assisting with, verifying and editing the translations. I know of maybe a few "linguistics" people that LSM has on staff that LSM will use that as their "credibility" in producing a Bible translation. The introduction at the beginning of the OT RcV really destroys the credibility of the translators as far as I'm concerned.

When I learned that LSM back in the 1980's, then commandeered by the profligate Phillip Lee, son of Witness, fired her original N.T. translators John Ingalls, Bill Duane, and Albert Knoch for attempting to protect the volunteer staff from Philip's immoral impulses, the whole business enterprise got exposed for its corrupton. It was a bright light shining in a dark place.

Many of us old guys bought into Ingalls' work because it was such an improvement over the KJV and more accurate than the paraphrases (The Living New Testament, which btw, while reading I was dramatically saved) at the time. Back in those days, the selection of good translations was no where near what we have today in English.

Philip Lee, "Office Manager" of his nepotist father, then replaced LSM's translation department by Benson Philip's loyal Texan cadre, featuring Kerry Robichaux, who was actually in Greece at the time apparently learning the contemporary language. (I suppose that's like going to the inner city to learn Shakespearean English, but I jest.) Poster ZNPaaneah, who knew the Texan crew, has stated on numerous occasions that the new staff simply stole the 1901 ASV with a number of semantic improvements and Leeisms like "God's Economy" for sale to the faithful. Since the new editorial committee had little education nor maturity to show for, they willingly gave all the glory to Witness himself, accompanied with the smiles of Benson and Ray Graver.