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La Biblia y la traducción · Claim record

Bruce Metzger volvió sobre el tema en una reseña firmada de la Traducción del Nuevo Mundo de las Escrituras Griegas Cristianas publicada en The Bible Translator, la revista de las Sociedades Bíblicas Unidas, en julio de 1964. La reseña es de juicio mixto. Reconoció que 'on the whole, one gains a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment of the translators (their names are not divulged)' ['en conjunto, uno se lleva una impresión pasablemente buena de la preparación académica de los traductores (sus nombres no se divulgan)'] y que 'frequently an intelligent use of critical information is apparent' ['con frecuencia se aprecia un uso inteligente de la información crítica']; después escribió que 'the introduction of the word “Jehovah” into the New Testament text, in spite of much ingenuity in an argument filled with a considerable amount of irrelevant material, is a plain piece of special pleading' ['la introducción de la palabra “Jehová” en el texto del Nuevo Testamento, pese a mucho ingenio en una argumentación llena de una cantidad considerable de material irrelevante, es un caso claro de argumentación interesada'], y repitió sus objeciones de 1953 a 'and the Word was a god' ['y la Palabra era un dios'] en Juan 1:1 y al cuádruple 'other' ['demás'] en Colosenses 1:16.

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Declaración explícita · julio de 1964 Verificado

Bruce Metzger volvió sobre el tema en una reseña firmada de la Traducción del Nuevo Mundo de las Escrituras Griegas Cristianas publicada en The Bible Translator, la revista de las Sociedades Bíblicas Unidas, en julio de 1964. La reseña es de juicio mixto. Reconoció que 'on the whole, one gains a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment of the translators (their names are not divulged)' ['en conjunto, uno se lleva una impresión pasablemente buena de la preparación académica de los traductores (sus nombres no se divulgan)'] y que 'frequently an intelligent use of critical information is apparent' ['con frecuencia se aprecia un uso inteligente de la información crítica']; después escribió que 'the introduction of the word “Jehovah” into the New Testament text, in spite of much ingenuity in an argument filled with a considerable amount of irrelevant material, is a plain piece of special pleading' ['la introducción de la palabra “Jehová” en el texto del Nuevo Testamento, pese a mucho ingenio en una argumentación llena de una cantidad considerable de material irrelevante, es un caso claro de argumentación interesada'], y repitió sus objeciones de 1953 a 'and the Word was a god' ['y la Palabra era un dios'] en Juan 1:1 y al cuádruple 'other' ['demás'] en Colosenses 1:16. The Bible Translator, julio de 1964

La posición de la organización o su explicación posterior: Appendix A5 of the 2013 New World Translation is the organisation's answer on the divine name. Metzger's own review independently records the same figure the organisation gives: the name is introduced '237 times into the main body of the text, as well as 72 times in the footnotes'.

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The Bible Translator, “Book Review: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures”

julio de 1964 · pp.150-152 (quoted passages at pp. 151 and 152) · Bruce M. Metzger · United Bible Societies (published by SAGE; DOI 10.1177/000608446401500311)

“On the whole, one gains a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment of the translators (their names are not divulged). … Frequently an intelligent use of critical information is apparent. (p. 151) … Some of the translations which are simply indefensible include the following. The introduction of the word 'Jehovah' into the New Testament text, in spite of much ingenuity in an argument filled with a considerable amount of irrelevant material (pp. 10-25), is a plain piece of special pleading. (p. 152)”

A signed review of the 1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures in the United Bible Societies' translation journal, running from the heading 'BOOK REVIEW' on p. 150 to the signature 'BRUCE M. METZGER' at the foot of p. 152. It is mixed, not uniformly hostile. Metzger notes the Westcott and Hort Greek text, records that 'one of the most notable features of the translation is the introduction of the name Jehovah 237 times into the main body of the text, as well as 72 times in the footnotes in the lower margin' (p. 151), and allows the translators 'a tolerably good impression of the scholarly equipment'. He then objects that rendering the same Greek word by the same English word 'has a specious show of faithfulness to the original, but the application of the principle with any degree of consistency tends to produce a certain woodenness' (p. 151); that 'and the Word was a god' at John 1:1, 'while entirely in accord with the Arian theology of the sect, is not justified despite a lengthy note which attempts to support it' (p. 152); and that 'in the interest of providing support for their Unitarianism, the translators have not hesitated to insert four times the word “other” (totally without warrant from the Greek) before the word “things” in Col. 1: 16 f.' (p. 152).

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Nota de procedencia y verificación

Nota de confianza. Opened and read in full on 19 September 2026 — all three printed pages. journals.sagepub.com still returns HTTP 403 to automated requests and the live ubs-translations.org page now returns HTTP 404, but the Wayback Machine serves the United Bible Societies' own page images of the issue: a150.jpg, a151.jpg and a152.jpg under /tbt/1964/03/. Those three images were downloaded and read, and the quotations above are transcribed from them. The review is signed 'BRUCE M. METZGER'. Crossref independently confirms The Bible Translator vol. 15 no. 3 (July 1964), pp. 150-152, by B. Metzger.

Procedencia del escaneo. Page images of the printed journal from the United Bible Societies' own Bible Translator archive at ubs-translations.org, preserved in the Wayback Machine. The review occupies the images a150.jpg, a151.jpg and a152.jpg in /tbt/1964/03/, whose printed page numbers are 150, 151 and 152; the viewer's own index maps image a151.jpg to printed page 151, which is the page the secondary literature cites. The live ubs-translations.org page now returns HTTP 404.

Notes. This record previously said the text could not be opened and that nothing should be quoted from it. [Independent audit, 19 September 2026] It has now been read, and that judgement is reversed. The much-circulated sentence about 'a plain piece of special pleading' is accurate word for word, and it is on p. 152. The citation 'pp. 150-153' that circulates online is wrong: the review ends on p. 152. Note two traps. First, the same three pages contain the favourable sentence that defenders of the translation quote, so a page that uses one half without the other is quoting selectively. Second, Wikipedia's rendering of the p. 151 sentence, 'Frequently an intelligent use of a critical information is apparent', has a stray 'a'; the printed text reads 'an intelligent use of critical information'.

Consultado. 19 de septiembre de 2026 · Identificador de la fuente. src-nwt-metzger-1964-bible-translator

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