The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (1985 edition), “Appendix 1A: The Carry-Over of the Divine Name Into the Greek Scriptures”
“Authorities fix the date for this papyrus as the first century B.C.E., that is, about two centuries after the LXX was begun. This proves that the original LXX did contain the divine name wherever it occurred in the Hebrew original.”
The appendix builds the case from Papyrus Fouad Inv. 266, a Septuagint roll of Deuteronomy in which the Tetragrammaton is written in square Hebrew characters. It records that a fragment was published by W. G. Waddell in 1944, that in 1948 “two Gilead-trained missionaries of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society obtained photographs of 18 fragments” in Cairo and permission to publish them, and that 12 appeared in the 1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures. It quotes Paul Kahle and Jerome, and argues from Jerome’s statement that Matthew first wrote in Hebrew that the divine name stood in the original Gospel.
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Provenance and verification note for The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures (1985 edition), Appendix 1A: The Carry-Over of the Divine Name Into the Greek Scriptures
Confidence note. Appendix opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read; quotations and page markers confirmed from the document. The cited papyrological literature was NOT opened.
Corroborated by. src-nwto-nwtsty-a5-divine-name-greek, src-nwto-it-jehovah-greek
Notes. Note carefully what is and is not claimed: the papyrus evidence concerns the Greek Septuagint (an Old Testament translation), not any manuscript of the Christian Greek Scriptures.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-nwto-int-1985-app1a