prized because of its literary beauty, but is generally believed to be based on inferior Greek manuscripts. The New King James is much easier to read. Revised Standard Version (RSV)—According to Black, “the Revised Standard Version … sought to combine the accuracy of the English and American revised versions of 1881 and 1901, the literary quality of the KJV, and the style and idiom of contemporary English” (39). Although some fundamentalists have criticized it for allegedly diminishing the deity