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	Frederick William Franz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franz was born in Covington, Kentucky, and graduated high school in 1911.
		Franz is considered by some, though not having been officially acknowledged, to have been a leading figure in the preparation of the Witnesses' New World Translation of the Bible, which was prepared anonymously, like most Watchtower publications.
		Frederick Franz was the uncle of Raymond Franz, another member of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses who was eventually disfellowshipped (excommunicated).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_William_Franz (325 words)

	Nathan Homer Knorr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Franz outlived Knorr, however, and later succeeded him as the president of the Watchtower Society.
		(Franz 21-22) A revision to the Watchtower Society's organizational manual in 1972 explains this adjustment as, "it is noteworthy that the Bible does not say that there was only one "older man", one overseer, in each congregation.
		Frederick W. Franz, then vice president of the Watchtower Society, is cited as codifying this organizational change despite Knorr's initial reluctance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nathan_Homer_Knorr (684 words)

	Watchtower President Fred Franz(1893-1992) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Frederick W. Franz was the fourth president of the Watchtower organization.
		Franz: Yes, in the University of Cincinnati we studied the famous Westcott and Hort edition of the Greek text.
		Franz: Yes, I was offered a Cecil Rhodes Scholarship, I took an examination for that in the University of Ohio, the State University at Columbus, Ohio.
	www.home.earthlink.net /~defender/de01006.htm (469 words)

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		Watchtower President Franz, Dead at 99 Frederick W. Franz, fourth President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, died at the age of 99 on Tuesday, December 22nd, 1992.
		Franz was known as the primary theologian of the Watchtower Society.
		Franz's death at age 99 underscores the fact that the Governing Body itself is aged and feeble.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/apl/jw/jw-089.txt (1278 words)

	The New World Translation
		According to Raymond V. Franz, the "principal translator of the Society's New World Translation" was Frederick W. Franz.
		Franz afterwards became the President of the organization, from 1977 to 1992, and was responsible for the revisions.
		The author, Raymond V. Franz, was from 1971 to 1980 a member of the Governing Body of the Jehovah's Witnesses, and a nephew of vice-president Frederick W. Franz.
	www.bible-researcher.com /new-world.html (2223 words)

	~ Wither The Watchtower? Unfolding Crisis for Jehovah's Witnesses ~
		When Franz died on December 22, 1992 at age 99 he left in power a Governing Body mostly in their 80s and 90s, who, in turn, are dying off without eligible successors.
		Doctrinal matters, however, were left largely in the hands of Frederick W. Franz, who joined the sect under Russell and had been serving at the Brooklyn headquarters since 1920.
		FREDRICK W. Franz also inherited an organization troubled by discontent over the obvious failure of his prophecies of the world's end in the autumn of 1975.
	members.fortunecity.com /thetruth7/jwcrisis.html (1479 words)

	F. W. Franz Dies
		Yet, it is also a joyful announcement because to our dear Brother Franz now apply the words of Revelation 14:13: “Happy are the dead who die in union with the Lord from this time onward.
		Brother Franz was born on September 12, 1893, in Covington, Kentucky.
		In his lifetime, Brother Franz saw the number of Witnesses of Jehovah increase from a few thousand to some four and a half million.
	www.geocities.com /edward_jones_98/jw/franz_dies.html (293 words)

	For an Answer: Chrsitian Apologetics - Franz, LaSor, and the NWT
		Franz was not asked to carry on a conversation or to write a paper in Hebrew.
		Frederick Franz’s refusal under oath to render Genesis 2:4 from English into Hebrew is suspicious, given that there is no reason a Hebrew scholar qualified to sit on a modern English Bible translation committee would be unable to do so.
		Swift does not directly state that the “unnamed translator” (singular!) was Franz, but he does not deny it, and his reference to Franz’s recommendation of a Hebrew text suggests that they could be one in the same.
	www.forananswer.org /Top_JW/FranzNWT.htm (1829 words)

	Translators of the New World Translation
		Franz gives the impression that the bulk of his Greek studies were "Bible Greek" under "Professor Kensella" and that classical Greek was secondary under "Dr. Joseph Harry." The opposite is true.
		Franz's nephew, Raymond Franz, who resigned from the Jehovah's Witnesses Governing Body in 1980 and was excommunicated in 1981, listed some of the members of the NWT Committee in his 1983 book "Crisis of Conscience".
		But because the elder Franz has internally been termed "the oracle of the [JW] organization" and was clearly its "head theologian" from 1942 until his gradual retirement in the 1980s, he certainly inserted his religious biases into his translation work.
	www.freeminds.org /history/NWTauthors.htm (1355 words)

	Fred W. Franz' Armageddon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Franz was the Watchtower's prophet during his later years, up until his senility forced him to retire from an active role in the 80's.
		He is responsible for creating much of the expectation, and subsequent disappointment, regarding all the dates and chronology related to his career in the Watchtower headquarters.
		Frederick W. Franz remained single during his entire long life of over 100 years, and was president from 1977 to 1992 at his death.
	www.exjws.net /museum/franz.htm (224 words)

	Jehovah's Witnesses
		Franz was more knowledgeable in biblical studies and theology than his predecessors, and under his leadership the Witnesses learned to express their beliefs in more biblical and evangelical-sounding language.
		One of these leaders was Franz's nephew, Ray Franz, also a member of the governing body.
		Frederick Franz died in 1992, and was replaced by Milton G. Henschel.
	www.dashhouse.com /sermons/1996/PM/961201.htm (1411 words)

	The word was what?
		Fred Franz, then head of the Watchtower Editorial Board, admitted that he himself was the one who had checked the accuracy of the translation and recommended its publication.
		Franz, under oath in a trial in Scotland, was asked: (Walsh Trial, P. Scottish Court of Sessions in November, 1954.
		Franz during a court trial in Scotland (1954) was asked these questions under oath.
	www.letusreason.org /JW39.htm (3780 words)

	Summit Ministries: Resources: Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Franz also inherited an organization troubled by discontent over the obvious failure of his prophecies of the world's end in the autumn of 1975.
		By the time this purge culminated in the forced resignation and subsequent excommunication of the president's nephew and fellow Governing Body member Raymond V. Franz (a development Time magazine found worthy of a full-page article),[14] a siege mentality took hold on the worldwide organization.
		But Franz also observes that Henschel often admitted being too busy to read proposed drafts of Watchtower articles that came before his Publishing Committee for approval.
	www.summit.org /resource/essay/show_essay.php?essay_id=103 (4107 words)

	Franz Frederick W. Bogenschneider
		She was born 21 Jan 1871 in Prussia, and died 18 Jan 1957 in Cambridge, Dane County, Wisconsin.
		Franz Friedrich Wilhelm Bogenschneider, Jr., born 04 Mar 1899 in Oakland, Jefferson County, Wisconsin; died 18 Mar 1989 in Clyman, Dodge County, Wisconsin.
		She was born 16 Apr 1907 in Cambria, Dodge, Wisconsin, and died 01 Feb 1965 in St. Joseph's Hospital, Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin.
	www.bogenschneider.org /franz_frederick_wilhelm_bogenschneider.htm (8522 words)

	Focus On The Faulty: Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Franz further acknowledges his uncle Frederick Franz as the "principal translator of the Society's New World Translation" (Crisis, pg.
		Yet, Frederick Franz's translation ability is open to serious question.
		During a court trial held in Scotland in 1954 (during the same period that the New World Translation was being made) Franz was asked if he had made himself familiar with Hebrew.
	www.xmark.com /focus/Pages/jehovahs.html (2054 words)

	A Short History of the Watchtower Organization
		Knorr's training programs for proselytizing, plus Franz' apocalyptic projections for 1975, combined to produce rapid growth in membership, the annual rate of increase peaking at 13.5 percent in 1974.
		Over the objections of Fred Franz the Body that he had been instrumental in creating actually began governing, so that when Nathan Knorr passed away in 1977 Franz inherited an emasculated presidency.
		Even at Brooklyn headquarters little groups meeting privately for Bible study were beginning to question not only the 1914-based chronology that produced the 1975 deadline, but also the related teaching that the "heavenly calling" of believers ended in 1935, with new converts after that date consigned to an earthly paradise for their eternal reward.
	www.bible.ca /jw-history.htm (3363 words)

	The New World Translation: The Watchtower Society's Corrupt Bible
		Franz, but his primary training was in Classical Greek, not biblical Greek.
		Franz seemed to lack the fluidity he claimed.
		On cross-examination, Franz was asked to translate a particular verse from Genesis into Hebrew.
	www.contenderministries.org /jehovahswitnesses/nwt.php (3211 words)

	Facts About the Jehovah's Witnesses or Watchtower Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Life Everlasting in the Freedom of the Sons of God (1966) by Vice President Franz (1894-1992) concluded that the autumn of 1975 would mark the beginning of the seventh period of human history.
		Cross-examination of Frederick W. Franz in the case of Olin Moyle v.
		Fred Franz, a past president of the WTBandTS, quoted Rutherford as saying regarding his own predictions: "I know I made an ass of myself." Cited by Raymond Franz in Crisis of Conscience, p.
	www.irr.org /English-JW/jwfacten.html (3380 words)

	Topic: Who Were the NWT Translators? (page 1)
		Yes, Fred Franz was behind a lot of the stupid nonsense going on to this second in the tumbling old Tower, especially the basement and tunnels areas.
		I queried as to why Franz did not provide any ORAL or WRITTEN material that could be used as evidence in a future public forum.
		Even Franz did not feel unashamed in revealing the contents of private conversations that would have been an embarrassment for such prominent individuals.
	www.jehovahs-witness.com /forum/thread.asp?id=8658&site=3 (3833 words)

	Watchtower Bible and Tract Society: Are They Christian?
		Franz was the fourth president of the Watchtower organization.
		In his final year of life Mr Franz was blind and deaf and stayed in the infirmary at the New York world headquarters.
		Raymond Franz of Winston, Ga., the only Governing Body member ever to quit and write about the religion's inner workings, also noted that France has a a new law targeting religious organizations accused of mind control, while German law requires severance pay for church workers who leave.
	dunamai.com /articles/general/jwitness.htm (4094 words)

	Welcome To DOUKNOW.NET
		Even the Jehovah's Witness (JW) sect's principal magazine, The Watchtower, confined its mention of the new leader to a single sentence at the end of former president Frederick W. Franz's two-page obituary: "On December 30, 1992, Brother Milton G. Henschel was chosen as the Society's fifth president, to succeed Brother Franz."
		And, during the 1960s, the Society's publications began pointing to the year 1975 as the likely time for Armageddon and the end of the world.
		Thus, although Frederick W. Franz served as the sect's chief theologian for some 50 years — from the start of Knorr's presidency in 1942 until his own death last year, he eventually found himself resorting to a mini-Inquisition to keep his doctrines in force.
	www.douknow.net /jw_withering.htm (4466 words)

	Undoing the Judge:"Jehovah's Organization" or Joe's Organization?
		With a voice like an old-time Baptist preacher and a keen mind, Franz was often looked to as the source of "new light." One could be sure that if he were to lecture at large assemblies of Witnesses, new teachings would be outlined, to the thrill of the audience.
		Their technique was to draw attention to the organization, "God's Organization." Knorr coined the term, "New World Society" in reference to the Witnesses, fully believing that these would be the ones who survived into the new heavens and new earth spoken of in Rev. 21:1.
		Knorr died shortly thereafter, and Franz was appointed as the "token" President, but in effect had little or no say in organization affairs from this point until his death.
	www.theforbiddenknowledge.com /hardtruth/joes_organization.htm (4282 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Witness Under Prosecution -- Feb. 22, 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		A secretive and apocalyptic sect shuns a former leader For 40 years Raymond Franz devoted his whole being to the Jehovah's Witnesses.
		In a faith in which doubt is not tolerated, questions inevitably arose in the minds of some believers.
		Gradually Franz began to question other teachings, and now, in a downfall as dramatic as an...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,922767,00.html (157 words)

	TIME.com: Witness Under Prosecution -- Feb. 22, 1982 -- Page 1
		But Franz, 59, reluctantly agreed to break his silence and explain to TIME the accusations against him.
		His uncle, Frederick W. Franz, 88, has been the religion's top ideologue for decades and, since 1977, its head.
		Known to outsiders for their persistent door-to-door proselytizing, Jehovah's Witnesses exist within what Franz calls a "hermetically sealed" community; every doctrinal blip or scintilla of sin is closely monitored.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,922767,00.html (511 words)

	1975 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Does it mean this, that or any other thing?'" In part, Brother Franz went on to say: 'You have noticed the chart [on pages 31-35 in the book Life Everlasting-in Freedom of the Sons of God].
		Franz added: "There's no basis for believing that mankind, faced with what it now faces, can exist for the seventh thousand-year period" under the present system of things.
		Franz showed that we do not, for we do not know how short was the time interval between Adam's creation and the creation of Eve, at which point God's rest day of seven thousand years began.
	www.reexamine.org /quotes/1975.htm (12753 words)

	INCORPORATED NAME: Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania COMMON DESCRIPTORS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Nathan H. Knorr, under whom the Witnesses produced their New World Translation, succeeded Rutherford, who in turn, has been succeeded by the current president, Frederick W. Franz.
		When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously; thou shalt not be afraid of him.
		GODHEAD: The Christian church, contrary to the views of Charles Taze Russell, has always taught that within the nature of the one God there are three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
	www.skepticfiles.org /ignor/jwcritiq.htm (1214 words)

	Crisis of Authority? An article about 'the death of the head of the Jehovah's witnesses which causes problems because ...
		Frederick W. Franz, fourth President of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, died at the age of 99 on Tuesday, December 22nd, 1992.
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	FBS Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		It’s people like this and their support who help FBS exist and continue supporting our mission of promoting a greater appreciation of the blues as an American art form, supporting regional blues bands, and to help attract national blues acts to the Frederick area.
		They are white and feature the FBS logo on the front along with the words “Frederick’s Key to the Blues”.
		As you may know, FBS has teamed up with Fruteland Jackson to bring his Blues in the Schools program to Frederick County High schools for the past 2 years.
	www.frederickblues.org /Newsletter7.htm (1487 words)

	2/15/96 Watchtower magazine critique
		Page 15-16: Frederick W. Franz, one of the anointed and then president of the Watch Tower Society, approached 100 years of age, he was legally blind and had to use a hearing aid.
		Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot SEE the kingdom of God." John 3:3.
		The real Fred Franz: The day before I (Ray Franz) took off for Paris on the first leg of my trip to West Africa (November 16, 1979), the Society's president (Fred Franz) was presiding at the morning Bible text discussion.
	www.truthandgrace.com /Wt021596.html (1385 words)

	When Prophecies Fail
		However, more “credit” is due to Frederick W. Franz, Knorr’s vice-president, for the prediction of 1975 that first appeared in Life Everlasting in Freedom of the Sons of God (1966).
		Unlike the flying saucer cult and the Millerites, the Watchtower was at first unwilling to accept blame for the disconfirmation, shifting it to “over-zealous brothers.” Many Witnesses, however, were outraged and the Watchtower finally accepted much of the blame publicly.
		F.W. Franz, verbatim as quoted by Randall Watters, present at the March 2, 1975 graduating class of the students of Gilead school.
	www.caic.org.au /jws/predictions/whenprop.htm (3481 words)

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