Bible Versions

Revised Standard Version  (RSV)
Date: 1952  ( Rev: 1957 Apocrypha, 1971 New Testament, 1977 expanded edition)
Creators: Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches
Translation- Language: English, Type: Formal Equivalence
Source Texts: American Standard Version revised from Hebrew and Greek critical texts, including manuscript discoveries

A major ecumenical revision that modernized the ASV while retaining the KJV literary tradition.

Popularity: Moderate ( Still used in study, worship, and Catholic and Orthodox editions, though often replaced by later revisions.)
Denominational Context: Ecumenical Protestant, with Catholic and Orthodox editions
Copyright Status: Copyrighted
Publisher: National Council of Churches
Significance: It became a central twentieth-century English Bible and the parent of the NRSV, ESV, and other revisions.