American Revision Committee

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The American Revision Committee was a group of American biblical scholars responsible for producing the American Standard Version of the Bible in the early 20th century.

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instanceOf Bible translation committee
scholarly committee
activityPeriod early 20th century
late 19th century
basedOn English Revised Version NERFINISHED
composition American biblical scholars
country United States of America
denominationContext interdenominational Protestant
editorialPrinciples close adherence to original Hebrew and Greek texts
minimal alteration of the Revised Version text
field Bible translation
biblical scholarship
textual criticism
goal to produce an American edition of the Revised Version
to update the King James Version in American English
historicalSignificance produced one of the first major American standard Bible translations
influenced English Bible translation in the 20th century
New American Standard Bible NERFINISHED
Revised Standard Version NERFINISHED
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableMember Benjamin B. Warfield NERFINISHED
Charles A. Briggs NERFINISHED
George E. Day NERFINISHED
Howard Osgood NERFINISHED
Philip Schaff NERFINISHED
notableWork American Standard Version NERFINISHED
productAbbreviation ASV NERFINISHED
productAlternativeName American Standard Bible NERFINISHED
Standard American Edition of the Revised Version NERFINISHED
productLanguageVariant American English NERFINISHED
productPublicationDate 1901
productTitle American Standard Version of the Bible NERFINISHED
region North America
religiousAffiliationOfMembers various Protestant denominations
religiousTradition Protestant Christianity NERFINISHED
responsibleFor production of the American Standard Version
translationPhilosophy formal equivalence
translationType revision of the King James Version
usedSourceText Masoretic Text for the Old Testament NERFINISHED
Textus Receptus and critical Greek texts for the New Testament
workFocus Christian Bible NERFINISHED
New Testament NERFINISHED
Old Testament NERFINISHED

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American Standard Version commissionedBy American Revision Committee