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A reference to “sin offering” in the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Leviticus has been updated to the more precise “purification offering.” The New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Bible ...
A pastor named Luther Hux delivered a long sermon and then led everyone outside, gave each person an American flag, held up a copy of the RSV, ripped out the page that contained Isaiah 7, and burned ...
Since his 2016 campaign, Trump has publicly claimed that the Bible is “very special” to him, using it frequently to authenticate his faith among what he calls “the evangelicals.” If true, it’s a ...
This week a group of U.S. scholars, whose learning excludes them from suspicion of counterfeiting Revelation, brought out a Revised Standard Version of the New Testament.* ...
Recently I browsed the front end of the religion section in my neighborhood bookstore, and I found dozens of Bibles: teen Bibles, “practical” Bibles, a travel Bible, a “businessman’s” Bible, Bibles ...
The New Revised Standard Version updated edition of the Bible was approved Oct. 13 by the National Council of Churches and will be published as an electronic version on the Word@Hand app on Nov. 1 ...
The doc argues that the team of translators who worked on the Revised Standard Version of the Bible in the early 1940s used the word “homosexual” while translating 1 Corinthians 6:9.
For the past 70 years, the Revised Standard Version and 1989’s NRSV have been the go-to English Bible for students and scholars. This month’s NRSV update is especially well suited to opening a ...
The English Standard Version (ESV), first published in 2001, sets out to correct ‘liberal’ features of the RSV. The ESV-CE draws Catholics into the sad history of Protestant disputes.
A look at five updates to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible. The official Bible translation of the National Council of Churches, commonly used by academics and mainline Presbyterians ...
Not only is the RSV outdated (the New Revised Standard Version, NRSV, was published in 1989 to replace it), but it’s not a Bible that evangelical Christians consider authoritative.