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The New Revised Standard Version ( NRSV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English. Published in 1989 by the National Council of Churches, [8] the NRSV was created by an ecumenical committee of scholars "comprising about thirty members". [9] The NRSV relies on recently published critical editions of the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and ...
t. e. Modern English Bible translations consists of English Bible translations developed and published throughout the late modern period ( c. 1800–1945) to the present ( c. 1945– ). A multitude of recent attempts have been made to translate the Bible into English. Most modern translations published since c. 1900 are based on recently ...
The Oxford Annotated Bible ( OAB ), also published as the New Oxford Annotated Bible ( NOAB ), is a Study Bible published by the Oxford University Press. The notes and the study material feature in-depth academic research from nondenominational perspectives, specifically secular perspectives for "Bible-as-literature" with a focus on the most ...
GENESIS 2. On the seventh day, the Sabbath, God rests, and sanctifies the day. God forms Adam out of earth ("adamah"), and sets him in the Garden of Eden, to watch over it. Adam is allowed to eat of all the fruit within it, except that of the " Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil ." God then brings all the animals to Adam and Adam names them.
The Revised Standard Version ( RSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. [1] This translation itself is a revision of the American Standard Version (ASV) of 1901, [2] and was intended to be a readable and literally accurate ...
Allen Wikgren (member of the New Revised Standard Version committee, as well as the committee which produced the USB Greek text) said in 1952, "independent readings of merit often occur in other modern speech versions, such as Verkyl's New Testament (1945) and the Jehovah's Witnesses' edition of the New Testament (1950)". [119]
The Russian Synodal Bible ( Russian: Синодальный перевод, The Synodal Translation) is a Russian non- Church Slavonic translation of the Bible commonly used by the Russian Orthodox Church, Catholic, as well as Russian Baptists [1] and other Protestant communities in Russia. The translation dates to the period 1813–1875, and ...
The Revised English Bible ( REB) is a 1989 English-language translation of the Bible that updates the New English Bible (NEB) of 1970. As with its predecessor, it is published by the publishing houses of both the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It is not to be confused with the Revised English Bible of 1877, which was an annotated and ...