New Revised Standard Version

New Revised Standard Version
	The NRSV Bible with the Apocrypha
Full name:	New Revised Standard Version
Abbreviation:	NRSV
Complete Bible published:	1989
Textual Basis:	NT: Novum Testamentum Graece 27th edition. OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint influence. Apocrypha: Septuagint with Vulgate influence.
Translation type:	Borderline of formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence, with some gender-neutral paraphrasing.
Reading Level:	High School
Copyright status:	© 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Religious Affiliation:	Ecumenical, but generally Protestant

The New Revised Standard Version is a revision to the RSV published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches USA. The ecumenical NRSV Bible Translation Committee consists of thirty men and women who are among the top scholars in America today. They come from Protestant denominations, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Greek Orthodox Church. The committee also includes a Jewish scholar.

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