Page "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures" Paragraph 2

In October 1946, the president of the Watch Tower Society, Nathan H. Knorr, proposed a fresh translation of the New Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses usually refer to as the Christian Greek Scriptures.

stated " The translation of the New Testament is evidence of the presence in the movement of scholars qualified to deal intelligently with the many problems of Biblical translation.

One could question why the translators have not stayed closer to the original meaning, as do most translators ...

In not a few instances the New World Translation contains passages which must be considered as ' theological translations.

' This fact is particularly evident in those passages which express or imply the deity of Jesus Christ.