A Review of Dr Jason BeDuhn's “Truth in Translation”
“BeDuhn spent no less than twenty-two pages to justify the NWT's translation of one phrase in John 1:1c … He tells us that the word “Jehovah” occurs over 6,000 times in the Old Testament and 237 times in the NWT New Testament, but he manages to address this major issue in a mere 12½ pages — in an appendix.”
A long, openly published critique of BeDuhn's book by a Christian writer with a doctorate in linguistics. It is hostile to both BeDuhn and the New World Translation. It was used here only to locate the pages of BeDuhn's appendix; every BeDuhn quotation in this ledger was then confirmed independently in the book itself through Google Books' in-volume search.
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Provenance and verification note for A Review of Dr Jason BeDuhn's “Truth in Translation”
Confidence note. The PDF was downloaded from livingwater-spain.com on 19 September 2026 and the relevant chapters were read. What is verified is that this document says these things; it is a partisan self-published critique and is recorded here as a discovery aid, not as evidence for any claim about the translation. [Independent audit, 19 September 2026] Downloaded and read again; the quotation is verbatim. The document's own front matter reads 'First published edition 12th July 2014' and 'Date of this revision: 26th March 2026', so the date field has been corrected from a bare '2026'. Allin's stated credentials are a first-class degree from Leeds in phonetics, French, Spanish and philosophy and history of religion, and a St Andrews PhD for a grammar of the South American language Resígaro — a linguist, not a biblical scholar.
Notes. The document also asserts that BeDuhn's own university distanced itself from the book. That assertion is not independently evidenced and is not relied on here. [Independent audit, 19 September 2026] Still not checked. Note also that this document is genuinely useful for one purpose: because it is hostile to BeDuhn, its quotations of BeDuhn's criticisms of the New World Translation are quotations against its own interest, which is why they are relied on here as corroboration for pp. 175 and 177.
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