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23 July 2022
The RSV or Revised Standard Version is a translation of the Bible produced by the National Council of Churches. Its New Testament appeared in 1946, its Old Testament in 1952, and the last major revision that is still known under the RSV name was in 1971. Some work done on the Apocrypha was released in 1977.
In 1989, the National Council of Churches released a substantial update, which is known as the nrsv, which has largely supplanted the RSV in mainstream Protestantism and academia. However, as a result of theological and social tensions, the NRSV has received a chillier reception in conservative evangelical quarters. Some in the evangelical camp reached an agreement with the National Council of Churches, allowing them to produce their own revision, the ESV, which does not allow biblical scholarship to stray outside the bounds of their version of orthodoxy.
The RSV was a revision of the ASV of 1901.
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