New Revised Standard Version

The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is a translation of the Bible in American English. It was first published in 1989 by the <a href="/facts/National_Council_of_Churches/lDolBqqr">National Council of Churches</a>, the NRSV was created by an <a href="/facts/Ecumenism/1Yyzv1zM">ecumenical</a> committee of scholars "comprising about thirty members".: vii  The NRSV relies on recently published <a href="/facts/Critical_editions/CR37mw8m">critical editions</a> of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts. A major revision, the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVue), was released in 2021.
Used broadly among <a href="/facts/Biblical_studies/dA7yGDVC">biblical scholars</a>, the NRSV was intended as a translation to serve the devotional, liturgical, and scholarly needs of the broadest possible range of Christian religious adherents.
The New Revised Standard Version is a revision in a series of English translations that has been identified as beginning with the <a href="/facts/King_James_Version/FdS5n0lX">King James Version</a>. The full 84 book translation includes the <a href="/facts/Protestantism/NXja4K3g">Protestant</a> enumeration of the <a href="/facts/Old_Testament/YFNzQVcK">Old Testament</a>, the <a href="/facts/Biblical_apocrypha/jN7uJrm5">Apocrypha</a>, and the <a href="/facts/New_Testament/k066sDIn">New Testament</a>; <a href="/facts/New_Revised_Standard_Version_Catholic_Edition/Y3wsaV12">another version of the NRSV</a> includes the <a href="/facts/Deuterocanonical_books/ogFvmWvx">deuterocanonical books</a> as part of the Old Testament, which is normative in the canon of <a href="/facts/Catholic_Church/rJ4F4gqH">Catholicism</a>, along with the New Testament (totalling 73 books).
The translation appears in three main formats: (1) an edition including the Protestant enumeration of the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the New Testament (as well an edition that only includes the Protestant enumeration of the Old Testament and New Testament); (2) a <a href="/facts/New_Revised_Standard_Version_Catholic_Edition/Y3wsaV12">Catholic edition</a> with all the books of that canon in their customary order, and (3) the <a href="/facts/Common_Bible/VJlUeBHC">Common Bible</a>, which includes the books that appear in Protestant, Catholic, and <a href="/facts/Eastern_Orthodox_Church/5n20Akh5">Eastern Orthodox</a> canons (but not additional books from <a href="/facts/Oriental_Orthodox_Churches/Hr4jF7La">Oriental Orthodox</a> traditions, such as the Syriac and <a href="/facts/Orthodox_Tewahedo_biblical_canon/cCgcowco">Ethiopian</a> canons). A special edition of the NRSV, called the "Anglicized Edition", employs <a href="/facts/British_English/ymJR5Rnd">British English</a> spelling and grammar instead of <a href="/facts/American_English/sdAfgPgM">American English</a>.

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New Revised Standard Version