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New Revie Stanar Verion with the Apocrypha Eitor Curti P. DeYoun Wil Gafney Leticia Guariola-Saenz Geore “Tink” Tinker Frank M. Yamaa Fortre Pre Minneapolis New Revised Standard Version Bible Copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America Up to five hundred (500) verses of The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible text may be quoted or reprinted without the express written permission of the publisher, provided the verses quoted neither amount to a complete book of the Bible nor account for 50% or more of the written text of the total work in which they are quoted. When the NRSV text is quoted, notice of copyright must appear on the title or copyright page of the work as follows: The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved. When quotations from the NRSV text are used in non-saleable media, such as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, transparencies, or similar media, the initials (NRSV) may be used at the end of each quotation. Quotations or reprints in excess of five hundred (500) verses (as well as other permission requests) must be approved in writing by the NRSV Permissions Office, The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115-0050. v Content To the Reaer. .xii Introuction to the People’ Bible. .### How to Ue the People’ Bible. ### Article Culture an Ientity. .### The Bible a a Text of Culture. ### The Bible a a Text in Culture Introuction. .### African American . ### Latina/o. .### Native American . ### Aian American. .### Euro-American . .### Jeu an Culture. .### The Bible an Empire. .### The Bible a Intrument of Reconciliation. .### View of Go . .### Bible, Culture, an Gener. ### Reponible Chritian Exeei of Hebrew Scripture. .### vi vii Content Content The Ol Tetament Introuction to the Prophet . 686 Iaiah. .692 Introuction to the Pentateuch. .3 Jeremiah . .762 Genei. 8 Lamentation. .829 Exou. .61 Ezekiel. 839 Leviticu. .104 Daniel . ### Number . .135 Hoea. .### Deuteronomy. .177 Joel. ### Amo. .### Introuction to the Hitorical Book. 216 Obaiah . .### Johua. .221 Jonah. .### Jue. .247 Micah. .### Ruth . .274 Nahum. ### 1 Samuel . .280 Habakkuk . ### 2 Samuel . .313 Zephaniah . ### 1 Kin. 341 Haai . ### 2 Kin. 372 Zechariah. .### 1 Chronicle . .402 Malachi. ### 2 Chronicle . .430 Ezra . .464 Nehemiah. .475 The Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Book Ether. .490 Tobit . .### Introuction to Wiom an Poetry . 500 Juith. .### Job . 506 Ether (Greek) . ### Palm . 542 The Wiom of Solomon . .### Proverb . .637 Sirach. .### Eccleiate. 669 Baruch . ### Son of Solomon. 678 The Letter of Jeremiah . ### Azariah an the Three Jew. ### Suanna. ### Bel an the Draon. ### 1 Maccabee . .### viii ix Content Content 2 Maccabee . .### Introuction to the General Letter an Revelation. .### 1 Era. ### Hebrew . .### The Prayer of Manaeh . .### Jame. .### Palm 151 . ### 1 Peter . ### 3 Maccabee . .### 2 Peter . ### 2 Era. ### 1 John. .### 4 Maccabee . .### 2 John. .### 3 John. .### Jue. ### The New Tetament Revelation . ### Introuction to the Gopel an Act. .### Matthew . .### Aitional Reource Mark. .### Luke . .### Art Gallery . .### John . .### Act. ### Bible Subject Guie . ### Introuction to Pauline Letter. .### Map. ### Roman. ### 1 Corinthian. .### Biblioraphy. .### 2 Corinthian. .### Galatian. .### Creit . ### Epheian. .### Philippian. ### Coloian . ### 1 Thealonian. ### 2 Thealonian. ### 1 Timothy . ### 2 Timothy . ### Titu . .### Philemon . .### x xi To the Reaer To the Reaer Orthodox communions (3 and 4 Maccabees and Psalm 151). Thereafter the Revised Standard Version gained the distinction of being officially authorized for use by all major Christian churches: Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox. The Revised Standard Version Bible Committee is a continuing body, comprising about thirty mem- This preface is addressed to you by the Committee of translators, who wish to explain, as briefly as pos- bers, both men and women. Ecumenical in representation, it includes scholars affiliated with various sible, the origin and character of our work. The publication of our revision is yet another step in the long, Protestant denominations, as well as several Roman Catholic members, an Eastern Orthodox member, continual process of making the Bible available in the form of the English language that is most widely and a Jewish member who serves in the Old Testament section. For a period of time the Committee current in our day. To summarize in a single sentence: the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is included several members from Canada and from England. an authorized revision of the Revised Standard Version, published in 1952, which was a revision of the Because no translation of the Bible is perfect or is acceptable to all groups of readers, and because American Standard Version, published in 1901, which, in turn, embodied earlier revisions of the King discoveries of older manuscripts and further investigation of linguistic features of the text continue to James Version, published in 1611. become available, renderings of the Bible have proliferated. During the years following the publication In the course of time, the King James Version came to be regarded as “the Authorized Version.” With of the Revised Standard Version, twenty-six other English translations and revisions of the Bible were good reason it has been termed “the noblest monument of English prose,” and it has entered, as no other produced by committees and by individual scholars--not to mention twenty-five other translations and book has, into the making of the personal character and the public institutions of the English-speaking revisions of the New Testament alone. One of the latter was the second edition of the RSV New Testa- peoples. We owe to it an incalculable debt. ment, issued in 197l, twenty-five years after its initial publication. Yet the King James Version has serious defects. By the middle of the nineteenth century, the devel- Following the publication of the RSV Old Testament in 1952, significant advances were made in the opment of biblical studies and the discovery of many biblical manuscripts more ancient than those on discovery and interpretation of documents in Semitic languages related to Hebrew. In addition to the in- which the King James Version was based made it apparent that these defects were so many as to call for formation that had become available in the late 1940s from the Dead Sea texts of Isaiah and Habakkuk, revision. The task was begun, by authority of the Church of England, in 1870. The (British) Revised Ver- subsequent acquisitions from the same area brought to light many other early copies of all the books of sion of the Bible was published in 1881-1885; and the American Standard Version, its variant embody- the Hebrew Scriptures (except Esther), though most of these copies are fragmentary. During the same ing the preferences of the American scholars associated with the work, was published, as was mentioned period early Greek manuscript copies of books of the New Testament also became available. above, in 1901. In 1928 the copyright of the latter was acquired by the International Council of Reli- In order to take these discoveries into account, along with recent studies of documents in Semitic gious Education and thus passed into the ownership of the Churches of the United States and Canada languages related to Hebrew, in 1974 the Policies Committee of the Revised Standard Version, which is that were associated in this Council through their boards of education and publication. a standing committee of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., authorized the The Council appointed a committee of scholars to have charge of the text of the American Standard preparation of a revision of the entire RSV Bible. Version and to undertake inquiry concerning the need for further revision. After studying the questions For the Old Testament the Committee has made use of the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (1977; whether or not.