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The Making of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

The publication of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) in September 1990 marked yet another milestone in the history of Bible translation. How the NRSV—a new synthesis of scholarly accuracy and expressive power—came to be is the subject of this book. Written by three members of the translation committee responsible for producing the New Revised Standard Version, this book is addressed to the...

of death”; “as long as I live” vs. “for ever”). By the seventies this kind of deference to tradition was no longer necessary, especially since several new translations incorporating the marginal readings had already appeared. The committee now had the opportunity to bring the RSV into harmony with the best scholarship of the seventies and eighties. The program was, therefore, this: to update grammatical forms, to eliminate sex-biased vocabulary, and to incorporate the results of sound biblical scholarship
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