First published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches, the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) updated the Revised Standard Version (RSV). The update was precipitated by advances in scholarship, like the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery.
One dramatic change was "inclusiveness in gender language," respecting both the cultural context of the NT and the modern world. Inclusiveness of audience was a primary goal for the translation.
The NRSV is published in several major formats, notably a Roman Catholic edition and the Common Bible (which includes all Biblical books of Protestant and Catholic tradition). The NRSV is a popular academic translation.
During the 2017 meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), a committee was formed to initiate a new update of the NRSV, to be called the NRSV Updated Edition (NRSV-UE). As of January 2022, the NRSVue is available electronically with the print publication scheduled for May, 2022. According to editors, over 10,000 substantial revisions (alongside 20,000 minor revisions) mark this updated edition.
The Concise Concordance to the New Revised Standard Version by
Contains over 300 pages of entries including citations on the most important key words in the NRSV Bible. Also includes over 300 capsule biographies of significant biblical characters and an exhaustive index of over 600 of the most frequent phrases in the NRSV.
The Making of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible by
How the NRSV--a new synthesis of scholarly accuracy and expressive power--came to be is the subject of this book, written by three members of the translation committee.
The NRSV Exhaustive Concordance by
Indexes every word in the New revised standard version of the Bible, including the Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books.
The NRSV Concordance Unabridged: Including the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books by
Documents all occurrences of all words in the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible.
The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) may be quoted or reprinted without express written permission of the publisher under the following conditions:
extent of usage amounts to fewer than 500 verses
extent of usage does not constitute a complete book of the NT
extent of usage does not exceed 50% of target publication
The copyright notice runs as follows:
"New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved."
For non-commercial material (e.g. bulletins):
Records of the Bible Translation and Utilization Program, NCCUSA. The Bible Translation and Utilization Program of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America determined policy for to the NRSV. The collection relates to the final stages of the NRSV and its initial dissemination. Come via Dr. Shannon Clarkson (BTU), who was involved with the NRSV project (1988-99).
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