Talk:Watchtower Bible School of Gilead

message: Apologies if I'm doing this wrong. I still have a lot of ignorance on the groundrules for editing WP.
At any rate, the phrase "the Old and New Testaments, which they refer to as the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures" struck me as odd. Of course, I realize that this is (I think) a minor issue. Nevertheless, Genesis through Malachi are literally "Hebrew(/Aramaic)" "Scriptures" and Matthew through Revelation are literally "Greek" "Scriptures". "Old Testament" and "New Testament" are interpretations of their content. Furthermore, they don't make lexical or contextual sense. The greek word at 2Co 3:14 was translated inconsistently in the KJV and the context itself shows that he wasn't referring to the entirety of the Hebrew writings. This has been known for a very long time.
One thing that helped strike the oddity on this was the discussion on deacons here. It is absolutely correct that the base word is 'deacon'. This is the transliteration of the greek word. "Ministerial Servant" is a translation. The article reading is entirely accurate referencing the literal word with the 'referred to as...' derivative after the comma.
Perhaps the same consideration can be given to this subject as well. Literal words first with interpretive derivation after the comma.
Again, I realize this is a minor issue and I've seen WT publications use 'Testament' at times to help new readers understand what they're referring to. But I've seen some rather intricate discussions on WP because of technical issues like these, and I figured it'd be appropriate to bring it up.
Jeffo, you seem to be the de facto head over all things English JW on WP, so what do you think?  
Addition: I suppose it would help to include my suggested change, "....alternating between the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures (commonly known as the Old and New Testaments).— Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.81.57.128 (talk) 22:20, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Following Wikipedia's principle of using common names, the article properly makes references to the sections of the Bible using the terms that are most often used, and then provides the terms used by JWs. No change is required. In particular, it would be more ambiguous to use the term 'Greek Scriptures' as an initial description, as that generic term may refer to any scriptures translated into Greek, and the term is often used to refer to the Septuagint.--Jeffro77 (talk) 10:13, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New and Old Testaments/Hebrew and Greek Scriptures 

message: This article is based almost entirely on primary sources, and is in desperate need of better sources indicating notability of this internal JW training program. If suitable sources cannot be located, the article should be deleted, or at the very least greatly redacted.--Jeffro77 (talk) 23:25, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed some of the trivial primary source content. That this would happen was advised over 2 years ago, so this seems more than fair.--Jeffro77 (talk) 11:09, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Primary sources

message: While I have been unable to verify it with an RS (my sources are mostly OR, being my mother and a few other JW's I know) apparently the Theocratic Ministry School within each congregation was discontinued in 2015. If someone can fine some RS's for this it would be good information for the article. Vyselink (talk) 21:12, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sort of. The "Theocratic Ministry School" has been 'rebranded' as "Treasures from God's Word", with three of the 'student talks' shunted off to a section called "Apply Yourself to the Field Ministry". The format of the talks and the order of the meeting parts has been modified. 'Talks' are still 'assigned' to 'students' and the 'students' are still given 'counsel' (by the "Life and Ministry chairman") based on material from their Ministry School textbook, so it's as much of a 'school' as it (n)ever was, and the changes are only really semantics. Our Kingdom Ministry has been rebranded as Our Christian Life and Ministry–Meeting Workbook and now includes less content, with more whitespace and lots of pretty pictures. But it's more or less the same concept as before—some talks that focus on a chunk of the Bible or a JW publication. It is still followed by what used to be called the 'Service Meeting' called "Living as Christians", which now also includes the "Congregation Bible Study" as a 'meeting part' rather than being considered a 'separate' 'meeting', which had still been the case after it was merged into the same evening instead of being the "Book Study" on a separate night). As with many 'important' changes in the JW microcosm, it's probably considered a 'big deal' by adherents—this is easy to imagine of a group where semantics play such an important part.--Jeffro77 (talk) 06:00, 12 August 2016 (UTC)

text: This article only tangentially mentions the 'Theocratic Ministry School', and only in a historical context. The 2016 change to the TMS is probably of no importance to the scope of this article.--Jeffro77 (talk) 06:36, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theocratic Ministry School