Anthony Byatt

Anthony "Tony" Byatt (23 February 1928 – 17 September 2014) was an English postcard publisher, photographer and writer. Byatt's works cover a broad range of subjects: reproduction of historical photographs and picture postcards, Bible translation, New Testament metaphors, water systems and population of Jerusalem, human body and clothing.

Life

Private life

Byatt and his wife had two daughters.

Religious activity

Byatt joined Jehovah's Witnesses in 1939, and he was appointed to special service within the denomination by 1956. 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.

Golden Age Books Byatt directed the publishing company Golden Age Books, which was based at his residency in Malvern. Byatt had been an antiquarian bookseller since 1981 and Golden Age Books also dealt in second-hand literature.

Writings

He published a book on the interpretation of New Testament metaphors in 1995.

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. While most doctrines defended by Byatt continue to be accepted by Jehovah's Witnesses, some of the views have been retracted by the organization in the course of more scholarship.

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.