Description: Now with British spelling, grammar and punctuation, and with over 20,000 updates and enhancements that clarify the text and make it resonate with a today's readers, this is the first comprehensive revision of the NRSV since it was published in 1989.
Brief description:
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is the largest ecumenical body in the United States, comprising member from 38 Christian faith groups.The NCC sponsored the multi-denominational research effort that produced the Revised Standard Version (1952) and the New Revised Standard Version (1989), and holds the copyrights to both translations. In 2017 the NCC commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), the world's leading international association of biblical scholars, to review and update the NRSV. The SBL review panel included seven general editors and fifty-six book editors.
Review Quotes: The NRSV has long been the Bible translation I go to for teaching purposes because of its careful attention to meaning and nuance. This new edition is much more user-friendly for English readers. Where it makes changes that are more than just Anglicisations, as, for example, in Matthew 2.23 (the virgin becomes pregnant, rather than conceives), the intention is clearly to use everyday language rather than archaisms. When it does the opposite (the Wise Men become Magi, for example), it alerts us to a bigger point: these were not just clever people, but professionals in an arcane field. It is important for readers of the Bible to notice the loving, attentive decisions made by translators of the text, seeking to draw us into a more than surface engagement with the words on the page. Translators help us, too, to translate the Bible in our lives.--Jane Williams, McDonald Professor in Christian Theology, St Mellitus College, London