Bible. New Testament. English. Revised Standard Version

Issued in 1971, this edition presents a revised Revised Standard Version New Testament, incorporating textual and translation changes that followed twenty-five years of use. Its scope is limited to the New Testament, undertaken within the larger family of the complete Bible, and it is translated from Greek, resting on updated critical Greek evidence as its base text. The RSV itself stood in the line of English Bible revision descending from the King James tradition, and this edition follows a philosophy of formal equivalence, seeking correspondence to the wording and structure of the original. It is best categorized as a substantial revision rather than a fresh undertaking, taking the RSV of 1946/1952 as its predecessor and base translation. Its distinctive character lies in this balance: it is not a wholly new Bible translation, but it does represent a meaningful revision of the text, and it became the form of the RSV New Testament in common later use.