JW's and non-JW's alike: Was the NWT really in the Game Show Jeopardy?

As JOYfilled has pointed out, this is a terrible lie that Jehovah's Witnesses started years ago. Please go to the link she provided, where you will find links to PROOF that this question was NEVER asked on Jeopardy.

The Jeopardy board reads as follows:

"The only two games with clues having to do with Bible translations are these:

#5042, aired 2006-07-11 OLD AMERICAN HISTORY $400: In 1663 John Eliot's translation of this, both the old & new parts, appeared in Algonquin

#2959, aired 1997-06-12 RELIGION $100: The first translation of this book printed in America was John Eliot's 1661-63 Algonquian one."

Jehovah's Witnesses, you are all deceived -- not only by the WBTS, but by the MIStranslators of the NWT, who never studied Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic or Koine Greek. Are you willing to bet where you spend eternity on a group of men who choose to remain nameless instead of revealing they couldn't speak, write or translate a simple Hebrew sentence?

EDIT: Bambi, isn't false witness a sin?

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MY god, it's a POWERPOINT GAME someone made up and posted on the internet and called it "Theology Jeopardy." It isn't the TV Jeopardy, and any common sense adult thinking person would know they would never endorse one over the other. For all we know, a Jw - (maybe it was the questioner? Or Achtung?) posted it and then used it as proof. For some JW to post this as FACT without taking the time to do research is mind-numbing. OTOH, it's typical of the way they run with rumors at anything that makes them feel more holy than thou. Follow up to TRK: sorry I came across so harshly. I usually find your questions and answers reasonable. I'm surprised actually that it was your Q. It's just that accuracy of a particular translation is such a subjective judgement, it is very unlikely that any broadcasting company would endorse one over the other. Plus, imagine the backlash from viewers or listeners who disagreed for one reason or another; or, those who felt another translation should have been included. It reminded me of when I was in the WT and a rumor spread (and was, incredibly, BELIEVED) that the little blue smurf dolls - supposedly demons - actually got up and walked out of a Kingdom Hall during WT Study one Sunday. Sometimes, it pays just to think it through and ask, "does this sound plausible?"

No, it seems remarkably unlikely that the producers of the television game show "Jeopardy!" would have involved themselves in the controversy concerning which Bible translation is the most accurate. Despite its stilted phraseology, the near-ubiquitous, centuries-old "King James" version has long been used by "Jeopardy" patently BECAUSE the show intends to avoid controversy.

This rumor probably originated honestly, but carelessly. For their own use, a private group created a set of questions which were presented and answered in "Jeopardy" fashion at an event with no actual connection to the well-known show. The graphics had such a professional appearance that they were soon emailed and re-emailed all over the world, eventually to those who had no idea of the email's origin and true nature. Sadly, it seems that assumptions were made, repeated, and then repeated with unfounded certainty.

This answerer has answered over ten thousand questions, largely in defense of Jehovah's Witnesses but always in defense of truth. This answerer does not believe the rumor to have truth or even the reasonable expectation of truth.. ..

Yes it was, I watched the episode with my brother in 2005 I believe. He passed in 06 and we had a group over for dinner. It was a matter of discussion for awhile. But by 2009, jeopardy had removed it because of controversy and it couldn't be found in the archives. It was on YouTube untill 2011 and then it too was removed.

As someone who has studied biblical and other languages and who has done a fair bit of translation, it is obvious that none of these answers come from people who have studied ancient languages and cultures (for cultural understanding is absolutely necessary to accurate interpretation). All reputable Greek and Hebrew scholars have serious problems with the NW"T" (T in parentheses because it is not really a "translation"). No serious koine Greek scholar, for instance, agrees that John 1:1 can be translated "a god"; only somebody who just knows a tiny bit of koine could suggest to unsuspecting, uneducated folk that you can add an indefinite article here. The only possible interpretations are "The Word was God" or "God was the Word". And when Jesus said, "I am", He offended the leaders of Jewry because they knew that He was indeed equating himself with God. By the way, "Jehovah" was a word created by the ancient Jews so THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE TO PRONOUNCE THE HOLY NAME OF GOD. Hebrew scriptures use 3 names for the LORD: Adonai, Elohim and--the holiest name--JAHWEH. "Jehovah" is a combination of Adonai and JHWH. The NT never uses the Hebrew tetragrammaton. Oh, yeah: and why did Jesus say, after His resurrection: "...touch me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have." (Plus, He ate some fish.). (JWs say that Jesus--i.e., the Archangel Michael--had only a 'spiritual' resurrection.) As well, check to see--even in the NWT--if Jesus ever claimed to be Michael. He often referred to Himself as the Son of Man and the Son of God--and the latter left no doubt to the Jews of the day that He equated Himself with the One and Only God.

Urban legend - from all research. Trebec is game show host. The answer would be opinion and subjective in the strictest interpretation. An error in the least.

"What is the most accurate translation of the Holy Scriptures?" is not how Jeopardy works.

I am interested in what category a question would be in that is not phrased as an answer? Is there a video of this? Put it up on Google or Youtube.

Dear Follower of Alpha and Omega,

A similar question was asked more than a year ago by Suzanne YPA. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiUhj...

I have frequently seen people who make this claim as though it was God's Word but I'm sceptical. I noticed that quite recently Achtung added a comment to the question above giving a date but I'm still sceptical. I'm not a Jeopardy watcher but I am a Bible reader and have seen on many occasions that the NWT, imho, actually slanders God's Word. The proof of that is how God has repeatedly revealed the organization to be a source of false prophecy.

For His glory,

JOYfilled

I am a strong supporter of the New World Translation.

But to be referred to as "the most accurate Bible" is subjective, even for Bible scholars. And although a scholar may have good reason to feel this way, there will be others for what they consider equally good reasons to hold another translation to be "most accurate".

The subjective nature of the question would probably preclude it from having that honor as a question or answer on Jeopardy. If there were a question that asked what translation a particular scholar held as the most accurate, that would be different.

What I do know is that there used to be an online game called Theocratic Jeopardy and that was one of the questions and answers. What or who led to the development of the game, I honestly do not know.

This information may give you a place to begin your search.

But be assured that there are Bible scholars who DO believe that the New World Translation IS the most accurate, whether that was on Jeopardy or not.

Yes it really happened but you have to remember that they were just quoting a survey. It's nice for JW's to hear that the NWT is perceived as accurate, but really what matters is what people do after they read the Bible.

Thought you would find this very interesting. Recently on Jeopardy one of the questions was...

"What is the most accurate translation of the Holy Scriptures?"

No one got the correct answer, so Alex Trebek said, "New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures, printed by Watchtower Bible Tract Society."

The research was from the book: "TRUTH IN TRANSLATION: ACCURACY AND BIAS IN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT"

Author: Jason David BeDuhn is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. He holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of Illinois, an M.T.S. in New Testament and Christian Origins form Harvard Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Study of Religions form Indiana University, Bloomington.

The Nine English Translations Compared in BeDuhn's book are:

- The King James Version (KJV)

- The Amplified Bible (AB)

- The Living Bible (LB)

- The New American Bible (NAB)

- The New American Standard Bible (NASB)

- The New International Version (NIV)

- The New World Translation (NW)

- The (New) Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

- Today's English Version (TEV)