Revised Standard Version RSV

Who made it?

Sponsored by the National Council of Churches; translated by a committee of scholars.

Why was it made?

To revise the ASV into contemporary literary English while retaining continuity with the KJV tradition.

How did it develop?

The RSV New Testament appeared in 1946 and the complete Bible in 1952. It became a major twentieth-century English Bible and later stood behind the NRSV and, through revision, the ESV.

What source texts did it use?

Modern critical Hebrew and Greek editions of its era