The RSV Today
The RSV remains a favorite for many Christians today, although it is increasingly difficult to find. In 1999, the National Council of Churches, in association with Odyssey Productions, produced a TV documentary about the making of the RSV - "The Bible Under Fire".
The year 2002 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the RSV Bible. Oxford University Press commemorated it by releasing two different Anniversary editions: one with the Old and New Testaments only (the NT text being from 1971), and one including the Apocryphal books as seen in the 1977 expanded edition. In an effort to further ecumenical relations, this 50th Anniversary Edition included some of the preferred Catholic readings in the text and footnotes of the New Testament section.
Two years before, Oxford's rival, Cambridge University Press, reprinted the RSV in two editions which are still available: a Brevier center-column reference Bible, and a New Testament with Psalms.
Oxford continues to make the RSV Oxford Annotated Bible available, in a 1973 edition with Old and New Testaments (the NT text being from the 1971 update) and a 1977 edition featuring both Testaments and the 1977 Expanded Apocrypha.
Scepter Publishers, Ignatius Press, and Oxford continue to print the 1966 edition of the RSV-Catholic Bible, and Ignatius, as mentioned, has made the Second Catholic Edition of the full Bible and a New Testament/Psalms available.
Read more about this topic: Revised Standard Version
Famous quotes containing the word today:
“To be faced with what so-and-so’s mother lets him do, or what the teacher said in class today or what all the kids are wearing is to be required to reexamine some part of our belief structure. Each time we rethink our values we reaffirm them or begin to change them. Seen in this way, parenthood affords us an exceptional opportunity for growth.”
—Ruth Davidson Bell (20th century)