Empindura ya Baibuli eya New World Translation Ehikire?

Ekicweka eky’okubanza eky’empindura ya New World Translation kikaturuka omu 1950. Kuruga obu, abantu abamu babalizeeho kurungi empindura enua kandi abandi batekeriize ngu tehikire habwokuba enkarra ezimu nizaahukana n’empindura ezindi. Eki nukwo kiri habw’ensonga zinu ezoolekerwe hansi.

• Eri ha mulembe. Empindura eya New World Translation n’esigikirra ha kuseruliiriza okw’akasumi kanu kandi ekahindurwa kusigikirra ha bihandiiko bya Baibuli ebirukukirayo emyaka kandi ebirukukirayo kwesigwa. Baitu empindura eya King James Version ey’omwaka 1611 ekahindurwa nibasigikirra ha bihandiiko bya Baibuli ebirumu ensobi nyingi kandi ebikaba bimazire emyaka nke kakuba olengesaniza n’ebihandiiko ebyasigikirirweho kuhindura New World Translation.

• Okwesigwa. Empindura eya New World Translation erengaho kwihayo kurungi amakuru gonyini agakaba gali omu byahandiikirwe ebyabandiize ebyahandikisiibwe Ruhanga. (2 Timoseo 3:16) Empindura za Baibuli nyingi tiziihayo amakuru gonyini habw’okugonza kuhondera emigenzo y’abantu. Ekyokurorraho, omu nkarra nambere hasemeriire kuba ibara lya Ruhanga, Yahwe, harumu ebitiinisa nka Mukama rundi Ruhanga.

• Kuhindura ekigambo ha kigambo. Kwahukanaho n’empindura za Baibuli ezihindura amakuru kwonka omu buli rukarra, New World Translation ehindura ekigambo nk’oku kiri, kakuba kyetegerezebwa ngu tikirukwija kuguma kukyeteregereza rundi kuhindura amakuru g’orukarra agakaba gali omu bihandiiko ebyabandize. Abahinduzi ba Baibuli bahindura amakuru kwonka omu buli rukarra, nibasobora kumalirra batairemu entekereza z’abantu rundi nibaihamu ebintu ebikuru muno.

Embaganiza eri hagati y’empindura eya New World Translation hamu n’empindura ezindi

Ebitabu ebitarumu. Abakatuliki hamu na ba Eastern Orthodox bakateeka omu mpindura zaabo za Baibuli ebitabu ebirukumanywa nka Apocrypha. Baitu Abayudaaya tibaikirizaaga ngu ebitabu ebi bihikire, kandi tusemeriire kukiijuka ngu Abayudaaya “bakahuzibwa ebigambo bya Ruhanga.” (Abarumi 3:1, 2) Nahabweki empindura eya New World Translation hamu n’ezindi nyingi tiziirumu ebitabu ebi.

Enkarra ezitarumu. Empindura ezimu zongeramu enkarra rundi ebigambo ebitali omu bihandiiko bya Baibuli ebyakara muno, baitu ebintu ebi ebyayongiirwemu tibiri omu empindura eya New World Translation. Empindura nyingi eza Baibuli ez’omu kasumi kanu tizirumu ebintu ebi ebyayongiirwemu rundi zooleka nk’oku bitali omu bihandiiko bya Baibuli ebyaira ebirukwesigwa.b

Ebigambo ebirukwahukana. Omu nkarra ezimu, kuhindura ebigambo nk’okubiri nikisobora kutetegerezebwa kurungi rundi kuhabisa omusomi. Ekyokurorraho, ebigambo bya Yesu ebirukusangwa omu Matayo 5:3 bikira kuhindurwa biti: “Banyina omugisa abasege omu mwoyo.” (English Standard Version; King James Version; New International Version) Baingi obubasoma ebigambo “abasege omu mwoyo” bibabuzaabuza. Abamu batekereza ngu Yesu akaba nabazaaho obukuru bwokuba bebundaazi rundi obunaku omu by’entahya. Baitu Yesu, akaba namanyisa ngu okusemererwa kwonyini kuruga omu kukimanya ngu nitwetaaga obuhabuzi kuruga hali Ruhanga. Empindura eya New World Translation eyihayo kurungi amakuru obwehindura ebigambo binu eti, “abamanyire obwetaago bwabo obw’eby’omwoyo.”—Matayo 5:3.c

Omulingo abakugu abarukuseruliiriza ha bya Baibuli babalizeeho kurungi empindura eya New World Translation

• Omu bbaruha ey’ebiro by’okwezi 8, Desemba 1950, omuhinduzi wa Baibuli kandi omuseruliirizi arukwetwa Edgar J. Goodspeed akabazaaho empindura eya New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures ati: “Omulimo abantu banyu ogubarukukora gunsemiize, nigukorwa omu nsi yoona. Kukira muno ngondeze empindura yanyu ey’eyanguhire kusoma. Neyoleka ngu mukozere okuseruliiriza kw’amaani kandi y’embaganiza omu miringo nyingi, eki nkyeroliire nyenka.”

  

• Purofesa Allen Wikgren owa Univasite eya Chicago akagamaba ngu empindura eya New World Translation eri kyokurorraho kirungi eky’empindura eza kasumi kanu habwokuba yo tehondera empindura eziroho hati baitu esigikirra ha bihandiiko bya Baibuli ebya kara.—The Interpreter’s Bible, Volume I, orupapura 99.

• Omukugu omu bya Baibuli kuruga Bungereeza arukwetwa Alexander Thomson akabazaaho empindura eya New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, ati: “Abaahindwire Baibuli bakaba bali bakugu kandi bamanyire kurungi ebya Baibuli. Bakakora kyona ekirukusoboka kwihayo amakuru gonyini ag’ebigambo eby’Oruyonaani omu Rungereeza.”—The Differentiator, Apuli 1952, orupapura 52.

• Robert M. McCoy akehurra ngu omu mpindura eya New World Translation harumu ebintu ebimu ebyatarukwikiranganiza nabyo hamu n’ebindi bingi ebyarukwikiranganiza nabyo, baitu hanyuma y’okwekebiija empindura enu akagamba ati: “Empindura ey’Endagaano Empyaka, neyoleka ngu omu diini enu [Abakaiso ba Yahwe] harumu abakugu abamanyire kurungi Baibuli kandi nibasobora kusingura ebizibu bingi abahinduzi ba Baibuli ebibakira kutangatangana.”—Andover Newton Quarterly, Janwali 1963, orupapura 31.

• N’obukiraaba ngu Purofesa S. MacLean Gilmour, ataikiranganize n’ebigambo ebimu ebyakozesiibwe omu mpindura eya New World Translation, akaikiriza ngu abaagihindwire “bakaba nibetegereza kurungi orulimi Oruyonaani.”—Andover Newton Quarterly, Sebutemba 1966, orupapura 26.

• Obwakaba nayekebiija empindura eya New World Translation enyakuli kicweka kya Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures, Purofesa Thomas N. Winter akahandiika ati: “Empindura enu eyahindwirwe abantu abatamanyirwe mabara eri ha mulembe kandi ebintu ebirumu bihikiire kimu.”—The Classical Journal, Apuli-Maayi 1974, orupapura 376.

• Purofesa Benjamin Kedar-Kopfstein, omusaija Omuheburaniya kuruga Isaleri kandi omukugu omu bya Baibuli akagamba ati omu 1989: “Omu kuseruliiriza kwange haby’endimi obukirukuhika ha Baibuli ey’Oruheburaniya hamu n’okuhindura endimi, nkira kujuliza omu mpindura eya New World Translation ey’Orungereeza. Obungisoma, nkirorra kimu ngu abaagihindwire bakaba besigwa, baine ekigendererwa eky’okwetegereza ebigambo omu mulingo oguhikire nk’oku kirukusoboka.”

• Hanyuma y’okwekebiija empindura mwenda ez’Orungereeza ezirukukirayo kumanywa, Purofesa Jason David BeDuhn, ow’arukusomesa ha by’ediini akahandiika ati: “Empindura eya NW [New World Translation] niyo erumu ebintu ebihikire kukira empindura ezindi zoona.” N’obukiraaba ngu abakugu abaseruliiriza ha Baibuli n’abantu abandi bagamba ngu enyahukana eziri omu mpindura enu zikatekwamu abahinduzi baayo nukwo zihikaane n’enyikiriza zaabo, BeDuhn akagamba ati: “Enyahukana ezirukukira obwingi zirumu habwokuba empindura eya NW ehikire kandi abahinduzi baayo bakalengaho kuhindura amakuru g’ebigambo nk’oku gakaba gali abahandiiki b’Endagaano Empyaka obubaagihandiikire.”—Truth in Translation, orupapura 163, 165.