Revised Standard Version
The Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible was first published in 1946 and was intended to be a revision of the American Standard Version. The New Testament of this version was widely admired at the time of its publication, but the 1952 publication of the Old Testament received such criticism as to prevent the RSV's use as a popular Bible in the United States. R. Laird Harris wrote:
It is a curious study to check the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, a monument of higher critical scholarship, and note how every important Old Testament passage purporting to predict directly the coming of Christ has been altered so as to remove this possibility ... It is almost impossible to escape the conclusion that the admittedly higher critical bias of the translators has operated in all of these places. The translations given are by no means necessary from the Hebrew and in some cases ... are in clear violation of the Hebrew." (Inspiration and Canonicity of the Bible: An Historical and Exegetical Study. Contemporary Evangelical Perspectives. 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1969), p. 58.)
The most common criticism the RSV received was in respect to Isaiah 7:14 where they rendered the word almah as 'young woman' rather than 'virgin'. (In the Greek Septuagint, the Greek word is clearly virgin.)
The RSV was itself revised in 1990, forming the New Revised Standard Version, which also translates almah as 'young woman' rather than 'virgin', but with a lengthy footnote explaining its reason and reiterating that Mary was a virgin at the conception of Jesus
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Oxford College Edition
The Oxford College Edition of the Revised Standard Version is the epitome of liberal denial in its introduction to each book of the New Testament. Apparently there was not a vigilant conservative editor to object to how the commentary denies an early date to each book and instead estimates as late a date of composition as can be plausibly imagined, while typically also denying that the named author really composed it.
The Oxford College Edition misleads, with liberal bias, in its introductory notes to the New Testament by saying that all of its books were written in Koine Greek, when in fact the flawless masterpiece Epistle to the Hebrews was written in highly elegant classical Greek (the editors of this edition do acknowledge that this Epistle is "highly literary as regards sentence structure and vocabulary"[2]).
The Oxford College Edition dogmatically asserts, as liberals like to do, that "Jesus himself left no literary remains" (p.1167), when in fact no author other than Jesus for the flawless masterpiece, the Epistle to the Hebrews, can plausibly be identified. See Mystery:Did Jesus Write the Epistle to the Hebrews?
Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition RSVCE
The RSVCE (also called the Ignatius Bible) is an edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible prepared for the use of Catholics by a committee of the Catholic Biblical Association of Great Britain. It is published with ecclesiastical approval and by agreement with the Standard Bible Committee and the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.[3]
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References
- ↑ The Bible is the best selling book of all time, Guinness Book of Word Record
- ↑ p. 1168.
- ↑ Introduction, The Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition. The Catholic Edition of the New Testament, copyright 1965. The Catholic Edition of the Old Testament, incorporating the Apocrypha c. 1966 by Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Published by Thomas Nelson Publishers for Ignatius Press. ISBN case bound 0-89870-490-1 ISBN paperback 0-898870-491-X
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