Talk:List of Watch Tower Society publications/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Archive 3

New Song Book

125 Song or 135 Song? — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 09:33, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps the number of songs varies by language. --AuthorityTam (talk) 17:05, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

is this new songbook will soon replace "sing praises to jehovah" during meetings in kingdom halls?

2010.--Jeffro77 (talk) 04:38, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

135 Song according blog Jehovah's Witnesses. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 04:28, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Revised editions

It is claimed that the Daniel's Prophecy book was revised based on the copyright note found in Watchtower Library. Has anyone identified any text that is changed from the first edition? It may only be referring to the latest printing of the book, rather than any revision. For example, a quick perusal of the latest edition of WTLib shows the following publications with discrepancies in their printed edition date (1st number) vs their release date (2nd number):

• My Book of Bible Stories - 2006/2004
• What Does the Bible Really Teach? - 2009/2005
• Draw Close to Jehovah - 2006/2002
• Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? - 2006/1985
• Is There a Creator Who Cares About You? - 2006/1998
• Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy! - 2006/1999
• The Secret of Family Happiness - 2006/1996
• Keep Yourselves in God’s Love - 2009/2008
• The Bible—God’s Word or Man’s? - 2006/1989
• The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived - 2006/1991
• Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life - 2006/1995
• Mankind’s Search for God - 2006/1990
• Learn From the Great Teacher - 2006/2003
• Worship the Only True God - 2006/2002

I doubt that so many items were revised in 2006, especially since the Knowledge book has been replaced by the Bible Teach book, and the Worship book has been replaced by God's Love. -- Needscurry (talk) 15:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Many of the books listed above were released as soft-cover editions, probably in the years stated. Whether textual revisions were also made would need to be considered on an individual basis.--Jeffro77 (talk) 00:29, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

There are trivial differences, some of which may not be in the text. For example, Watch Tower is reputed to have an unstated policy of replacing photographs of Witness models who cannot be confirmed as "exemplary" when a publication is otherwise reviewed. --AuthorityTam (talk) 16:26, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

A textual comparison of the Knowledge book between 2004 and 2009 (before and after the 2006 revision) shows that the only change in wording is "600" changed to "hundreds of" on page 26 (and I seem to recall that this particular difference existed in some printings prior to 2000 anyway). (There are other very minor changes involving non-breaking spaces, bullet characters, and diacritic marks in Greek transliterations.) It is quite probable for at least some of the publications listed above (including the Knowledge book) that the re-release relates to the change to soft-cover. Obviously this would not be the reason for those publications listed above that were originally released as soft-cover. It is also possible that some or all of the publications may have had artwork changed, which could be for the reason suggested by AuthorityTam or for other reasons.--Jeffro77 (talk) 23:42, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Daniel's Book

Has anyone identified any text that is changed from the first edition? -- Needscurry (talk) 15:42, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

I found it. — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 10:24, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Songbooks

Is it available in orchestral recordings? — Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 10:26, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Jones: Tract 6 title

The title is given in: Schulz and deVienne: The Publishing Ministry, 2010. (truthhistory.blogspot.com). It exists as a single original. The front cover can be found on books.google.com. It is listed as Bible Students Tract number 6 by worldcat, formerly OCLC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.223.210 (talk) 18:02, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

{{movereq|List of Watch Tower Society publications}}

List of Jehovah's Witnesses publications → List of Watch Tower Society publications — Early Bible Students publications are not really 'Jehovah's Witnesses publications'. Additionally, there are most likely other Bible Students publications that were printed after the schism in the movement resulting in the separation of Jehovah's Witnesses (with the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society) from other sections of the movement. I would therefore propose either:

1. Renaming this article (back) to List of Watch Tower Society publications; or
2. Splitting out pre-1931 publications to a separate article, List of Bible Students publications, in which case:

• Include reference to publications such as The Watchtower that span both groups in both articles and
• Add more-recent Bible Students publications to the new article.

At the moment I think I prefer the first option for simplicity.-- Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:15, 2 July 2010 (UTC) Jeffro77 (talk) 10:03, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Moved as per proposal

billinghurst sDrewth 12:07, 14 July 2010 (UTC)