Anthony Byatt

Byatt and his wife had two daughters.{{sfn|Golden Age Books}}

Byatt joined Jehovah's Witnesses in {{c.}} 1939,{{sfn|Byatt|2004a||pp=|p=109}} and he was appointed to special service within the denomination by 1956.{{Cite book |title=1956 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses |publisher=Watch Tower Society |year=1955 |location=Brooklyn |pages=49 |chapter=Ordained Ministers Appointed to Special Service}} Apart from preaching, his activity included collecting books for the library of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead with future Governing Body member Albert Schroeder.{{sfn|Byatt|1997b|pp=|p=8}}

Byatt directed the publishing company Golden Age Books, which was based at his residency in Malvern.{{sfn|Paul|2009|pp=|p=201}} Byatt had been an antiquarian bookseller since 1981{{sfn|Golden Age Books}} and Golden Age Books also dealt in second-hand literature.{{Cite web |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |title=Welcome to Golden Age Books |url=https://goldenagebooks.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207215205/http://www.goldenagebooks.org/ |archive-date=February 7, 2014 |website=Golden Age Books}}

He published a book on the interpretation of New Testament metaphors in 1995.{{sfn|Lim|2017|pp=|p=6}}

In 2004, Byatt and other Jehovah's Witness writers published the anthology 'Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953), which included essays defending the New World Translation against criticism from non-Witnesses and a bibliography of works on the translation.{{sfn|Byatt|2005}}{{sfn|Lundquist}}{{Sfn|Williams|2006}}{{sfn|Lang|2006|pp=|p=14}} While most doctrines defended by Byatt continue to be accepted by Jehovah's Witnesses, some of the views{{Cite magazine |last=Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania |date=February 1, 1999 |title=“Jehovah” or “Yahweh”? |url=https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1999088#h=9 |magazine=The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom |pages=30-31 |quote=A two-syllable pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton as “Yahweh” would not allow for the o vowel sound to exist as part of God’s name. But in the dozens of Biblical names that incorporate the divine name, this middle vowel sound appears in both the original and the shortened forms, as in Jehonathan and Jonathan.}}{{Sfn|Byatt|2004b||p=151}} have been retracted by the organization in the course of more scholarship.{{Cite book |last=Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania |url=https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200002391#h=18 |title=Insight on the Scriptures |date=2023 |publisher=Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. |edition=Revised |volume=2 |location=Wallkill |pages=7 |quote=Also, the forms Yehohʹ, Yoh, Yah, and Yaʹhu, found in the Hebrew spelling of the names Jehoshaphat, Joshaphat, Shephatiah, and others, can all be derived from Yahweh.}}

As a member of the International Society of Bible Collectors (ISBC), Byatt was an Associate Editor of The Bible Collector, changed to Bible Collectors' World in 1985.{{Cite web |title=12 Bible Collectors' World journals 1960s-80s - Watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses |url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/12-bible-collectors-world-journals-1799072237 |access-date=May 8, 2024 |website=WorthPoint}}{{Cite web |title=Handling The Tetragrammaton - Anthony Byatt 1987 Watchtower Jehovah's Witnesses |url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/handling-tetragrammaton-anthony-byatt-1794087927 |access-date=May 8, 2024 |website=WorthPoint}}{{sfn|Golden Age Books}}

• {{cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |year=1974 |title=Picture Postcards and Their Publishers: An Illustrated Account Identifying Britain's Major Postcard Publishers 1894 to 1939 and the Great Variety of Cards They Issued |location=London |publisher=Golden Age Postcard Books |isbn=978-0-9506212-0-3 |oclc=641778625}}
• {{cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |author-mask=4 |publisher=Golden Age Postcard Books |year=1982 |title=Collecting Picture Postcards: An Introduction |isbn=978-0-9506212-1-0 |location=Malvern, Worcestershire}}
• {{cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |author-mask=4 |year=1995 |title=New Testament Metaphors: Illustrations in Word and Phrase |publisher=The Pentland Press |isbn=978-1-85821-239-5}}
• {{cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |author-mask=4 |year=1997 |title=Building a Theocratic Library |publisher=Golden Age Books |isbn=978-0-95062-123-4 |location=Malvern, Worcestershire}}
• {{cite book |year=2004 |title='Your Word Is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953) |publisher=Golden Age Books |isbn=978-0-95062-126-5 |editor-last=Byatt |editor-first=Anthony |editor-last2=Flemings |editor-first2=Hal |location=Malvern, Worcestershire |editor-mask=4}}
• {{cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |author-mask=4 |year=2012 |title=Reminiscences Towards a History of Jehovah's Witness in London–1881 to 1977 |publisher=Golden Age Books |isbn=978-0-95577-504-8 |location=Exeter}}

• {{cite journal |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |date=1973 |title=Josephus and Population Numbers in First Century Palestine |journal=Palestine Exploration Quarterly |volume=105 |number=1 |pages=51–60 |doi=10.1179/peq.1973.105.1.51}}
• {{cite journal |last=Byatt |first=A. |author-mask=4 |date=1984 |title=Daniel Mace's New Testament |journal=The Bible Collector |volume=20 |issue=78 |pages= |url=http://www.biblecollectors.org/biographies/daniel_mace.htm |issn=}}
• {{cite journal|last=Byatt|first=A.|author-mask=4|date=1987|title=Handling The Tetragrammaton In English Translations|journal=Bible Collectors' World|volume=3|pages=3–8|url=|issn=0883-9204|issue=4}}
• {{cite journal |last=Byatt |first=A. |author-mask=4 |date=1989 |title=The Holy Spirit - A Further Examination |journal=The Expository Times |volume=100 |number=6 |pages=215–216 |doi=10.1177/001452468910000605 |issn=0014-5246 |eissn=1745-5308}}
• {{Cite web |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |author-mask=4 |date=2005-09-17 |title=Response to Lynn Lundquist's Criticisms. |url=http://onlytruegod.org/defense/response.lundquist.byatt.htm |website=OnlyTrueGod.org}}

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• {{Cite web |last=Ancestry |title=Mr Anthony Byatt in the England and Wales, Death Index, 1989-2022 |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1824452:60630 |url-access=registration |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=ancestry}}
• {{Cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |title=Building a Theocratic Library |publisher=Golden Age Books |year=1997b |isbn=978-0-9506212-9-6 |location=Malvern, Worcestershire |pages=8 |chapter=Introduction |quote=When I lived in London, I sometimes had the privilege of going round the bookshops with Brother Bert Schroeder when he was on a visit, looking for books for Gilead. By 1962 Gilead had some 10,000 volumes}}
• {{Cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |chapter=Chapter 8: Distinguishing the 'Lords': Does Jesus Take Jehovah's Name? § Reviewers' Criticisms |title='Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953) |publisher=Golden Age Books |year=2004a |isbn=978-0-95062-126-5 |editor-last=Byatt |editor-first=Anthony |location=Malvern, Worcestershire |pages=109 |quote=On the Elder's remark, we would ask Lundquist, what about Jehovah's Witnesses before the NWT was published in 1950; did they not have a faith in Jehovah then? Of course they did! I myself was a Witness for eleven years before 1950, and the NWT did not change my faith, for it is the Hebrew Scriptures which fully establish so much about Jehovah. |editor-last2=Flemings |editor-first2=Hal}}
• {{Cite book |last=Byatt |first=Anthony |chapter=Chapter 9: The Theological Importance of the Name Jehovah |title='Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953) |publisher=Golden Age Books |year=2004b |isbn=978-0-95062-126-5 |editor-last=Byatt |editor-first=Anthony |location=Malvern, Worcestershire |pages=151 |quote=The crucial question to ask of all Bible translators is why they render all those Israelite names in an English form beginning with 'Jeho' as Jehoash, Jehoram, Jehoshaphat, etc., but they do not use 'Jehovah' at all? 'The Jerusalem Bible' and 'The New Jerusalem Bible' are to be commended for at least using the form 'Yahweh', but why do they thus create such an inconsistency with all other Biblical names which commence with the two syllables 'Jeho'? |editor-last2=Flemings |editor-first2=Hal}}
• {{cite book|last=Gillen|first=Julia|year=2023|title=The Edwardian Picture Postcard as a Communications Revolution: A Literacy Studies Perspective|series=Routledge Research in Literacy|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781000903911|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kw7AEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA35}}
• {{Cite web |last=Golden Age Books|title=Welcome to Golden Age Books |url=https://www.goldenagebooks.org/ |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Golden Age Books}}
• {{cite book|last=Lang|first=Bernhard|date=2006|chapter=Text — Versions § 60. Anthony Byatt et al. (Eds.) "Your word is truth": Essays in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures|title=International Review of Biblical Studies|volume=51|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-47-40870-3|pages=14|doi=10.1163/9789047408703_004|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8StVEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA14}}
• {{cite book |last=Lim |first=Kar Yong |date=2017-05-05 |title=Metaphors and Social Identity Formation in Paul's Letters to the Corinthians |publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers |isbn=9781498282895 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zD7dDgAAQBAJ}}
• {{cite web|last=Lundquist|first=Lynn|title=Your Word is Truth, Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953) by Anthony Byatt and Hal Flemings|website=tetragrammaton.org|url=https://tetragrammaton.org/yourwordistruth.html}}
• {{cite book|last=Ong|first=Hughson T.|year=2015|title=The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament|volume=12|series=Linguistic Biblical Studies|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004304796}}
• {{cite book|last=Ong|first=Hughson T.|year=2021|title=Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament: Theories and Applications|volume=195|series=Biblical Interpretation Series|publisher=Brill|isbn=978-90-04-49974-4|doi=10.1163/9789004499744}}
• {{cite book|last=Paul|first=William E.|date=2009|chapter=English Language Bible Translators § Rutherford, W. G.|title=English Language Bible Translators|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786442430 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kn8wCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA201 |pages=201}}
• {{cite book|last=Samuel|first=Raphael|chapter=The Discovery of Old Photographs|title=Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture|publisher=Verso Books|date=2012|isbn=9781844679355|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ptjYXlhmyP0C}}
• {{cite book|last=Sandnes|first=Karl Olav|year=2002|title=Belly and Body in the Pauline Epistles|volume=120|series=Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139434720}}
• {{cite book|last=Spigel|first=Chad S.|title=Ancient Synagogue Seating Capacities: Methodology, Analysis and Limits|volume=149|series=Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum [Texts and studies in ancient Judaism], ISSN 0721-8753|publisher=Mohr Siebeck|date=2012|isbn=9783161518799}}
• {{cite encyclopedia|editor-last=Twyman|editor-first=Michael|year=2018|title=Encyclopedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator and Historian|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781136787782|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WXl0DwAAQBAJ}}
• {{cite journal|last=Wilkinson|first=J.|date=1974|title=Ancient Jerusalem: its Water Supply and Population|journal=Palestine Exploration Quarterly|volume=106|number=1|pages=33–51|doi=10.1179/peq.1974.106.1.33|pmid=11620410 }}
• {{cite journal |last=Williams |first=J. T. |date=2006 |title='Your Word is Truth': Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953) |journal=Journal for the Study of the Old Testament |volume=30 |issue=5 |page=54|issn=0309-0892 }}

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