New Revised Standard Version#NRSV Updated Edition (NRSVue)

The New Revised Standard Version was translated by the Division of Christian Education (now Bible Translation and Utilization) of the National Council of Churches in the United States. The group included scholars representing Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant Christian groups as well as Jewish representation in the group responsible for the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament. The mandate given the committee was summarized in a dictum: "As literal as possible, as free as necessary."{{r|nrsv.net}}

The following scholars were active on the NRSV Committee of translators at the time of publication.{{r|nrsv.net}}

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• William A. Beardslee
• Phyllis A. Bird
• George Coats
• Demetrios J. Constantelos
• Robert C. Dentan
• Alexander A. DiLella, OFM
• J. Cheryl Exum
• Reginald H. Fuller
• Paul D. Hanson
• Walter Harrelson
• William L. Holladay
• Sherman E. Johnson
• Robert A. Kraft
• George M. Landes
• Conrad E. L’Heureux
• S. Dean McBride, Jr.
• Bruce M. Metzger
• Patrick D. Miller
• Paul S. Minear
• Lucetta Mowry
• Roland E. Murphy, O. Carm.
• Harry Orlinsky
• Marvin H. Pope
• Jimmy Jack McBee Roberts
• Alfred v. Rohr Sauer
• Katharine D. Sakenfeld
• James A. Sanders
• Gene M. Tucker
• Eugene C. Ulrich
• Allen Wikgren

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The Old Testament translation of the RSV was completed before the Dead Sea Scrolls were available to scholars. The NRSV was intended to take advantage of this and other manuscript discoveries, and to reflect advances in scholarship.{{r|autogenerated1}}

In the preface to the NRSV Bruce Metzger wrote for the committee that "many in the churches have become sensitive to the danger of linguistic sexism arising from the inherent bias of the English language towards the masculine gender, a bias that in the case of the Bible has often restricted or obscured the meaning of the original text".{{r|autogenerated1}} The RSV observed the older convention of using masculine nouns in a gender-neutral sense (e.g., "man" instead of "person"), and in some cases used a masculine word where the source language used a neutral word. This move has been by some, including within the Catholic Church, and continues to be a point of contention today. The NRSV by contrast adopted a policy of inclusiveness in gender language.{{r|autogenerated1}} According to Metzger, "The mandates from the Division specified that, in references to men and women, masculine-oriented language should be eliminated as far as this can be done without altering passages that reflect the historical situation of ancient patriarchal culture."{{r|autogenerated1}}

Many mainline Protestant churches officially approve the NRSV for both private and public use. The Episcopal Church (United States) in Canon II.2 added the NRSV to the list of translations approved for church services. It is also widely used by the United Methodist Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Presbyterian Church in Canada,{{cite web | title=PCC Writer's Style Guide | page= 19 | publisher= Presbyterian Church in Canada – Life and Mission Agency | date=November 2009 | url= https://presbyterian.ca/wp-content/uploads/pcc_style_guide.pdf | access-date=2020-11-05 | quote=The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is the official Bible standard for The Presbyterian Church in Canada.}} the United Church of Christ, the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Canada, and the Uniting Church in Australia.

In accordance with the 1983 Code of Canon Law, Canon 825.1, the NRSV with the deuterocanonical books received the Imprimatur of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops,{{cite book | title=The Go-Anywhere Thinline Bible Catholic Edition New Revised Standard Version | page=ix | year=2011 | publisher=HarperOne | isbn=978-0062048363 | quote=...and an edition of the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books placed between the two Testaments. The text of the latter edition received the Imprimatur (official approbation) of the United States and Canadian Catholic Bishops.}} meaning that the NRSV (Catholic Edition) is officially approved by the Catholic Church and can be profitably used by Catholics in private study and devotional reading. The New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition also has the imprimatur, granted on 12 September 1991 and 15 October 1991, respectively. For public worship, such as at weekly Mass, most Catholic Bishops' Conferences in English-speaking countries require the use of other translations, either the adapted New American Bible in the dioceses of the United States and the Philippines or the English Standard Version and Revised New Jerusalem Bible in most of the rest of the English-speaking world.{{Cite news | last= | first= | date=July 24, 2020 | title=A New Lectionary for Scotland | work=Scottish Catholic Media Office | url=https://scmo.org/news-releases/perma/1595577600/article/a-new-lectionary-for-scotland.html | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107212724/https://scmo.org/news-releases/perma/1595577600/article/a-new-lectionary-for-scotland.html | archive-date=January 7, 2021 | access-date=January 7, 2021}}{{Cite web | title=New Zealand helps with new lectionary project | website=www.cathnews.co.nz | date=2021-05-10 | url=https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/05/10/new-zealand-catholic-lectionary/ | access-date=2021-11-03}} However, the Canadian conference and the Vatican approved a modification of the NRSV for lectionary use in 2008.{{Cite news | first=Michael | last=Swan | title=NRSV Bible gets Vatican recognition | work=The Catholic Register | date=September 5, 2007 | url=https://www.catholicregister.org/home/international/item/9802-nrsv-bible-gets-vatican-recognition}} The NRSV, along with the Revised Standard Version, is also quoted in several places in the English-language edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the latter of which summarizes Catholic doctrine and belief in written form.

In 1990 the synod of the Orthodox Church in America decided not to permit use of the NRSV in liturgy or in Bible studies on the grounds that it is highly "divergent from the Holy Scriptures traditionally read aloud in the sacred services of the Church."{{cite web | first=Tikhon | last=Fitzgerald | title=Bishop's Pastoral Letter on the New Revised Standard Version | url=http://www.holy-trinity.org/liturgics/tikhon.nrsv.html | access-date=2007-04-22}}

The New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSV-CE) is an edition of the NRSV for Catholics. It contains all the canonical books of Scripture accepted by the Catholic Church arranged in the traditional Catholic order. Because of the presence of Catholic scholars on the original NRSV translation team, no other changes to the text were needed.{{r|Harper|p=x|q=...Because of this Catholic presence no change in the translation was requested for this edition. The only exceptions are the Book of Esther, which exists in two different forms that are explained below, and the Book of Daniel, which includes the deuterocanonical portions that are listed below...In this Catholic edition, however, the translation of the Greek portions [of Esther] has been inserted at the appropriate places of the translation of the Hebrew form of the book.}}

An Anglicized Text form of the NRSV-CE, embodying the preferences of users of British English, is also available from various publishers.

The NRSV-CE received the imprimatur of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1991, granting official approval for Catholic use in private study and devotional reading.

In 2007, the Canadian conference and the Vatican approved a modification of the NRSV for lectionary use beginning the following year.{{cite web | title=Revised lectionary approved for Canada | date=August 24, 2007 | publisher=Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops | url=http://www.cccb.ca/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2510&Itemid=1062&lang=eng | access-date=September 3, 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 23, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923201255/http://www.cccb.ca/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2510&Itemid=1062&lang=eng}} The NRSV-CE, along with the Revised Standard Version (RSV), is also one of the texts adapted and quoted in the English-language edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.{{cite book | first1=Charlene | last1=Altemose | title=What You Should Know about the Catechism of the Catholic Church | page=37 | year=1994 | publisher=Liguori Publications | isbn=9780892436477 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZGph1PtTl4C&q=%22new%20revised%20standard%20version%22 | quote=The Revised Standard Version (RSV) and The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) are the editions of the Bible used in the Catechism.}}

{{Infobox Bible translation

| title = New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

| abbreviation = NRSVue

| complete_bible_published = 2021

| derived_from = New Revised Standard Version

| textual_basis = {{Ubl|OT: Biblia Hebraica Quinta; Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (2nd ed., 1983){{r|NRSV22k2|p=x}}|Apocrypha: Septuagint (Rahlfs'; Göttingen); additional sources{{r|NRSV22k2|p=x-xi}}|NT: UBS Greek New Testament (5th corrected ed.); The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition; Editio Critica Maior{{r|NRSV22k2|p=xi}}}}

| translation_type = Formal equivalence{{r|logos-bts}}

| reading_level = High school

| publisher = National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

| copyright = New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition, copyright © 2021 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

| religious_affiliation = Protestant{{r|logos-bts}}{{Efn|Primarily associated with mainline Protestantism, the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition features the work of "translation teams" that are "both ecumenical and interfaith," having developed the NRSVue as "a Bible produced by consensus that can be used among and across pluralistic communities in contexts both academic and religious."{{r|NRSV22k2|p=xi-xii}}}}

| webpage = {{URL|https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue}}

| genesis_1:1-3 = When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

| john_3:16 = {{Not a typo|"}}For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

}}

The New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVue) is a major revision of the NRSV. A three-year process of reviewing and updating the text of the NRSV was announced at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature.{{Cite news | title=SBL to Provide a Review and Update to the New Revised Standard Version | work=SBL Society Report | page=7 | date=2017 | url=https://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/SocietyReport2017.pdf}} The update was managed by the SBL following an agreement with the copyright-holding National Council of Churches (NCC). The stated focuses of the review are incorporating advances in textual criticism since the 1989 publication of the NRSV, improving the textual notes, and reviewing the style and rendering of the translation. A team of more than fifty scholars, led by an editorial board, is responsible for the review.{{Cite news | title=Following the Trial of Breadcrumbs for the upcoming NRSV Revision | work=Catholic Bible Talk | date=2019 | url=http://catholicbibletalk.com/2019/06/following-the-trail-of-breadcrumbs-for-the-upcoming-nrsv-revision/}} It was released for digital purchase on December 25, 2021, with the first print editions following in 2022.{{Cite web | title=NRSV Updated Edition | work=Friendship Press | url=https://friendshippress.org/nrsv-updated-edition/ }} As of July 2024, the NCC has submitted the NRSVue for review by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops with a request for an imprimatur.{{Cite web | title=NCC has Applied for Imprimatur on NRSVue | website=Catholic Bible Talk | date=2024-07-27 | url=https://catholicbibletalk.com/2024/07/ncc-has-applied-for-imprimatur-on-nrsvue/}}{{better source needed|reason=personal blog|date=July 2024}}

• The Harper Study Bible (Zondervan, 1991, {{ISBN|0-310-90203-7}})
• NRSV Reference Bible with the Apocrypha (Zondervan, 1993, {{ISBN|0-310-90227-4}})
• NRSV Student Bible (Zondervan, 1996, {{ISBN|0310926823}})
• The Cambridge Annotated Study Bible (Cambridge University Press, 1993, {{ISBN|0-521-50777-4}})
• The HarperCollins Study Bible with Apocrypha (Society of Biblical Literature, 1997, {{ISBN|0-06-065527-5}})
• The Access Bible with Apocrypha (Oxford University Press, 1999, {{ISBN|0-19-528217-5}})
• The Spiritual Formation Bible (Zondervan, 1999, {{ISBN|0-310-90089-1}})
• The New Interpreter's Study Bible with Apocrypha (United Methodist Publishing House, 2003, {{ISBN|0-687-27832-5}})
• The HarperCollins Study Bible: Fully Revised & Updated (HarperOne, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0060786854}})
• The Green Bible (HarperOne, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0061951121}})
• The Discipleship Study Bible (Westminster John Knox, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0664223717}})
• The Life with God Bible (Renovaré, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0061627644}})
• Lutheran Study Bible (Augsburg Fortress, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0806680590}})
• The Wesley Study Bible (United Methodist Publishing House, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-687-64503-9}})
• The Guidebook: The NRSV Student Bible (Zondervan, 2012, {{ISBN|978-0061988189}})
• The Jewish Annotated New Testament, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press, 2017, {{ISBN|978-0190461850}})
• The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0190276072}})
• NRSV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible (Zondervan, 2019, {{ISBN|978-0310452683}})
• Baylor Annotated Study Bible (Baylor University Press, 2019, {{ISBN|978-1481308250}})
• The Word on Fire Bible, 7 volumes (Word on Fire, 2020–ongoing)
• The SBL Study Bible with Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (HarperOne, 2023, {{ISBN|978-0062969439}})

The New Revised Standard Version is available in a 66-book Protestant Bible that only includes the Old Testament and New Testament; a 73-book Catholic Edition containing the Catholic enumeration of the Old Testament and New Testament; and an 84-book Ecumenical Bible that includes the Old Testament, Apocrypha and New Testament.{{R|BST2022|nrsv.net}}{{cite web | title=New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition | quote=Standing in this tradition, the NRSV is available in three ecumenical formats: a standard edition with or without the Apocrypha, a Roman Catholic Edition, which has the so-called "Apocryphal" or "Deuterocanonical" books in the Roman Catholic canonical order, and The Common Bible, which includes all books that belong to the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox canons. | url=https://classic.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Catholic-Edition-NRSVCE-Bible/ | url-status=live | archive-url=https://archive.today/20210726024610/https://classic.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Catholic-Edition-NRSVCE-Bible/| archive-date=2021-07-26 | access-date=2021-07-26}}

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• [https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue Official webpage (NRSVue)]
• [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,970029,00.html Religion: Farewell To Thee's and He's], Time magazine
• [http://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/ The National Council of Churches]
• [http://nrsvbibles.org/ New Revised Standard Version]

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