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Book Reviews BOOK REVIEWS The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), £13.95. BRUCE M. METZGER, ROBERT C. DENTAN, WALTER HARRELSON, The Making of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), viii + 92 pp., $7.95. This new edition of the Revised Standard Version appeared shortly after the Revised New English Bible (reviewed in NovT 33 (1991) pp. 182-5). The New Revised Standard Version ( = NRSV) stands in succession to the King James Version (the "Authorized" Version)-the original standard version- through the Revised Version of 1881-5, the American Standard Version of 1901, and the RSV of 1952. The North American committee responsible for this latest revision was at work for nearly 15 years. Among the motives behind the new revi- sion were the need to eliminate 'thee' and 'thou' from the translation and, in keep- ing with modern fads, to avoid 'sexist' language. In practice the version is a more radical revision than originally planned. Certainly 'thee' and 'thou' and associated antique forms of the second person of the verb are avoided. As far as inclusive language http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Novum Testamentum Brill

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Novum Testamentum , Volume 35 (1): 101 – Jan 1, 1993
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Brill
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© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0048-1009
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1568-5365
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10.1163/156853693X00068
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BOOK REVIEWS The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments with the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), £13.95. BRUCE M. METZGER, ROBERT C. DENTAN, WALTER HARRELSON, The Making of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991), viii + 92 pp., $7.95. This new edition of the Revised Standard Version appeared shortly after the Revised New English Bible (reviewed in NovT 33 (1991) pp. 182-5). The New Revised Standard Version ( = NRSV) stands in succession to the King James Version (the "Authorized" Version)-the original standard version- through the Revised Version of 1881-5, the American Standard Version of 1901, and the RSV of 1952. The North American committee responsible for this latest revision was at work for nearly 15 years. Among the motives behind the new revi- sion were the need to eliminate 'thee' and 'thou' from the translation and, in keep- ing with modern fads, to avoid 'sexist' language. In practice the version is a more radical revision than originally planned. Certainly 'thee' and 'thou' and associated antique forms of the second person of the verb are avoided. As far as inclusive language

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