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Plusses and minuses, April 8, 2002
This review is from: The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha (Paperback)
The NRSV has an intresting mix of literalness and paraphrasing in its translation. I suppose that comes from having started with the RSV, a more literal translation, and then trying to make it gender neutral. This Bible has more of the deuterocanonical books than any other that I have found. My copy of it, however, unfortunately does not tell you where or who accepts which books and so they're all just lumped together in one collection in the middle. I would have preferred it if it had told us. I only found out recently: Books in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Slavonic Bibles:
Tobit
Judith
Esther (with Greek additions)
Wisdom of Solomon
Ecclesiasticus (or the Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach)
Baruch
The letter of Jeremiah (Baruch 6)
The prayer of Azariah and the Song of the Three Jews (Daniel 3:24-90)
Susanna (Daniel 13)
1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees Books in the Greek and Slavonic Bibles but not in the Roman Catholic canon:
1 Esdras (Greek version of Ezra)
Prayer of Manasseh
Psalm 151
3 Maccabees In the Slavonic Bible and in the the Latin Vulgate appendix:
2 Esdras In the appendix of the Greek Bible:
4 Maccabees
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Bible Translation, October 4, 2002
By A Customer
This review is from: The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha (Paperback)
One of the central reasons I use this Bible is because it makes for an effective dialogue between Catholics like myself and Protestants, which the majority of the people I talk to about religious perspectives are. Another reason is because it stays away from some of the older, and harder to understand English of the KJV and Douay-Rheims. Basically, if you're Catholic and want to participate in ecumenism with Protestants or the Orthodox, you might want to have a spare copy of this in addition to your RSV-CE, Douay-Rheims, NAB, or whatever. In any case, this Bible's language flows easily. Still, if you want the best translation, you'd better learn Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew to have a grasp of the original Bible, and Latin in order to view the first translations of it. But, in case you don't want to go down that path, I'd pick up a copy of this no matter what Christian sect you are part of.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good value in an inexpensive paperback Bible, January 5, 2007
This review is from: The Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha (Paperback)
The New Revised Standard Version is a late-twentieth-century updating of the venerable Revised Standard Version. This reviewer has become familiar with the NRSV as the base English-language text of the New Cambridge Bible Commentary, a project for which I am writing the volumes on the book of Isaiah.
As a translation, the NRSV sticks to the center of the road. Traditionalists may dislike the move towards gender neutrality and the subsequent loss of the solitary singular in, for example, Psalm 1. Inclusive language advocates, on the other hand, may consider this a virtuous sacrifice.
As an edition, the text is a crystal clear 'Oxbridge' style on a crisp page layout. As a paperback volume, it opens and bends easily--important qualities for a self-styled 'reader's edition'--yet without the fragility of some Bibles.
Roman Catholic readers will appreciate the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical, or 'Apocryphal', books.
The only out of the ordinary characteristic of this edition is the price, which for an OUP publication is exceedingly reasonable, if that is not an oxymoron.
A good choice.
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