BIBLE TRANSLATIONS | NRSV

0. Introduction

a) Below is one comparison of twenty-three major Bible translations. Listed with each version is the text basis translators used for the Old and New Testaments, what technique they used to translate, and background information about the version.

1. Translation (Date originally published, abbreviation)

a) New Revised Standard Version Bible (1989, NRSV)

Text basis for O. T. :  Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint influence.

Text basis for Apocrypha:  Septuagint with Vulgate influence.

Text basis for N. T. :  Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition.

Technique used:  Formal Equivalence

Owner:  Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.

b) The NRSV is a thoroughvision of the Revised Standard Version (RSV) Bible of 1952. This is less literal than the RSV due to the goal of making the English easier to understand. Some editions of the NRSV contain the Apocrypha.