Description:

The NRSV Updated Edition Bible is intended to be the world’s most meticulously researched, rigorously reviewed, and faithfully accurate modern English-language Bible translation available to date. Discoveries of new texts, revised scholarly insights, heightened comprehension of ancient languages and traditions within their cultural context compelled the National Council of Churches to commission the Society of Biblical Literature to conduct this review and update. It is appropriate for use in ecumenical and interfaith contexts—Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish—for worship, devotional practices, or study.

Excerpt from To the Reader
From the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA
Motivated by love and respect for Scripture, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) hopes that you will find this New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition ( NRSVue ) suitable to inspire, inform, and guide daily living. The goal of the NRSVue is to offer a readable and accurate version of the Holy Bible to the global English-speaking community for public worship and personal study, for scholarship and study in classrooms, and for informing faith and action in response to God.
Together with religious leaders from diverse communities of faith, we join in the conviction that the Scriptures offer good news of God’s love—wisdom to guide, hope to sustain, truth to empower, forgiveness to change, and peace to bless all of creation. ...

Excerpt from Preface to the NRSV Updated Edition
From the Society of Biblical Literature
Purpose of the Revision
First published in 1611, the King James Version slowly but steadily attained a well-deserved stature as the English language’s “Authorized Version” of the Scriptures. At the same time, the scholarly foundation that produced the King James Version shifted as new manuscripts came to light and philological understandings improved. As a result of these scholarly advances, the Revised Standard Version was authorized to improve the translation, based on more evidence of the original texts and early translations of the Bible, the meanings of its original languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, as well as ancient translations into Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian Greek, Syriac, and Latin), and changes to the English language itself. The forty years between the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version likewise witnessed many developments in biblical scholarship, textual criticism, linguistics, and philology. The same has occurred over the last thirty years, including the publication of all the biblical texts discovered near the Dead Sea, and these developments warrant this update. As with its predecessors, the NRSVue can claim a well-known line from the 1611 preface to the King James Version : “We never thought from the beginning that we should need to make a new translation . . . but to make a good one better.”
The National Council of Churches, which holds the copyright of the New Revised Standard Version , commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to direct the NRSVue revision project thirty years after its original publication. The editors of this edition encourage readers to read the excellent prefaces to both the Revised Standard Version (1952) and the New Revised Standard Version (1989); some elements of the latter have been incorporated herein. This preface also outlines the process of the update and the mandate under which it was conducted. ...

What's being said
"With the most diverse team of contributors of any translation, ...I celebrate the NRSVue as an incredible work by scholars, an authentic act of worship through community, and a gracious gift of the Spirit.”

- The Right Reverend W. Darin Moore, Bishop in The AME Zion Church