Anthony "Tony" Byatt (February 23, 1928 – September 17, 2014)[1] was an English postcard publisher, photographer and writer. Byatt's works cover a broad range of subjects: reproduction of historical photographs and picture postcards,[2][3][4] Bible translation,[5] New Testament metaphors,[6] water systems and population of Jerusalem,[7][8][9] human body and clothing.[10]
Life
Private life
Byatt was married to his wife and had two daughters.[11]
Byatt directed the publishing company Golden Age Books, which was based at his residency in Malvern.[15] Byatt had been an antiquarian bookseller since 1981[11] and Golden Age Books also dealt in second-hand literature.[16] The website of the company continues to be maintained after his death.[11]
Writings
He published a book on the interpretation of New Testament metaphors in 1995.[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.[17][18][5][19]
As a member of the International Society of Bible Collectors (ISBC), Byatt was an Associate Editor of The Bible Collector, since 1985 called Bible Collectors' World.[20][21][11]
Bibliography
Books
Byatt, Anthony (1974). 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. London: Golden Age Postcard Books. ISBN978-0-9506212-0-3. OCLC641778625.
———— (1995). New Testament Metaphors: Illustrations in Word and Phrase. The Pentland Press. ISBN978-1-85821-239-5.
———— (1997). Building a Theocratic Library. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN978-0-95062-123-4.
————; Flemings, Hal, eds. (2004). 'Your Word Is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953). Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. ISBN978-0-95062-126-5.
———— (2012). Reminiscences Towards a History of Jehovah's Witness in London–1881 to 1977. Exeter: Golden Age Books. ISBN978-0-95577-504-8.
Articles
Byatt, Anthony (1973). "Josephus and Population Numbers in First Century Palestine". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 105 (1): 51–60. doi:10.1179/peq.1973.105.1.51.
Byatt, Anthony (1997b). "Introduction". Building a Theocratic Library. Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. p. 8. ISBN978-0-9506212-9-6. 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
Byatt, Anthony (2004). "Chapter 8: Distinguishing the 'Lords': Does Jesus Take Jehovah's Name? § Reviewers' Criticisms". In Byatt, Anthony; Flemings, Hal (eds.). 'Your Word is Truth', Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953). Malvern, Worcestershire: Golden Age Books. p. 109. ISBN978-0-95062-126-5. 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.
Ong, Hughson T. (2015). The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament. Linguistic Biblical Studies. Vol. 12. Brill. ISBN9789004304796.
Ong, Hughson T. (2021). Sociolinguistic Analysis of the New Testament: Theories and Applications. Biblical Interpretation Series. Vol. 195. Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004499744. ISBN978-90-04-49974-4.
Sandnes, Karl Olav (2002). Belly and Body in the Pauline Epistles. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series. Vol. 120. Cambridge University Press. ISBN9781139434720.
Spigel, Chad S. (2012). Ancient Synagogue Seating Capacities: Methodology, Analysis and Limits. Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum [Texts and studies in ancient Judaism], ISSN 0721-8753. Vol. 149. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN9783161518799.
Wilkinson, J. (1974). "Ancient Jerusalem: its Water Supply and Population". Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 106 (1): 33–51. doi:10.1179/peq.1974.106.1.33. PMID11620410.
Williams, J. T. (2006). "'Your Word is Truth': Essays in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (1950, 1953)". Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. 30 (5): 54. ISSN0309-0892.