Holy Bible NRSV - Catholic Edition Hardcover

Standard Hardcover Edition

The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is an authorized revision of the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952, which was a revision of the American Standard Version, published in 1901, which, in turn, embodied earlier revisions of the King James Version, published in 1611.

The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) remains essentially a literal translation. Paraphrastic renderings have been adopted only sparingly, and then chiefly to compensate for a deficiency in the English language—the lack of a common gender third­person singular pronoun.

The New Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition seeks to preserve all that is best in the English Bible as it has been known and used through the years. It ensures that the message of God is not disguised in phrases that are no longer clear or hidden under words that have changed or lost their meaning; it is presented in the contemporary English language that is direct and plain and meaningful to people today.