Revised Standard Version

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Bible translation English Bible translation

The Revised Standard Version is a mid-20th-century English translation of the Bible that sought to update the language of the King James Version while maintaining its literary quality and broad church acceptance.

Aliases (5)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Bible translation → English Bible translation →
abbreviation	RSV →
apocryphaPublicationYear	1957 →
basedOn	American Standard Version → King James Version →
centuryOfOrigin	20th century →
completeBiblePublicationYear	1952 →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
fullName	Revised Standard Version of the Bible →
genre	religious text →
hasEdition	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition → Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha → Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition →
includes	Apocrypha → New Testament → Old Testament →
influenced	Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version → English Standard Version → New Revised Standard Version →
language	English →
newTestamentFirstPublicationYear	1946 → 1947 →
notableFeature	modernizes archaic English pronouns and verb forms → retains much traditional biblical phrasing → widely used in mid-20th-century American Protestantism →
oldTestamentPublicationYear	1952 →
publisher	National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA →
purpose	to achieve broad church acceptance → to maintain the literary quality of the King James Version → to update the language of the King James Version →
religiousDenominationUse	Anglican churches → Lutheran churches → Methodist churches → Presbyterian churches → Protestant churches → some Roman Catholic contexts →
religiousTradition	Christianity →
revisionOf	American Standard Version →
scriptureType	Old and New Testaments →
sponsor	National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA →
style	literary → reverent →
subject	Bible →
targetAudience	churches → general English-speaking readers →
translationCommitteeLocation	United States →
translationType	formal equivalence →
usesTextualBasisNewTestament	critical Greek text →
usesTextualBasisOldTestament	Masoretic Text →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Revised Standard Version ("Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition") → Revised Standard Version ("Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition") → Revised Standard Version ("Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha") →	hasEdition
English Standard Version → New Revised Standard Version →	basedOn
Revised Standard Version ("Revised Standard Version of the Bible") →	fullName
Revised Standard Version ("Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version") →	influenced
NRSVue →	predecessor