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{{Short description|English translation of the Bible}}
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{{Infobox Bible translation
| translation_title     = Revised Standard Version
| image                 = The Revised Standard Version.jpg
| full_name             = Revised Standard Version
| abbreviation          = RSV
| NT_published          = 1946
| OT_published          = 1952
| derived_from          = [[American Standard Version]]
| textual_basis         = {{ubl|'''OT''': ''[[Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia]]'' with limited [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] and [[Septuagint]] influence|'''[[Biblical apocrypha|Apocrypha]]''': [[Septuagint]] with [[Vulgate]] influence|'''NT''': ''[[Novum Testamentum Graece]]''}}
| translation_type      = [[Formal equivalence]]
| reading_level         = High school
| version_revised       = 1971{{Efn|A minor text revision for both the Old Testament and the New Testament was initiated in 1959, taking into account "a study of criticisms and suggestions from various readers."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Revised Standard Version |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1963 |location=London, UK |pages=viii |language=en}}</ref> It was completed in 1962, being subsequently included in existing editions. The 1971 text edition (being the second edition) featured a revision of the New Testament.}}
| copyright             = 1946, 1952, 1971 (the Apocrypha is copyrighted 1957, 1977) by the Division of Christian Education of the [[National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA]]
| religious_affiliation = [[Protestantism|Protestant]], [[Ecumenism|Ecumenical]], with [[Roman Catholicism|Catholic]] acceptance since mid-1960s
| website= {{URL|https://rsv.friendshippress.org/}}
| genesis_1:1-3         = In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
| john_3:16             = For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
}}
{{BibleHistory}}

The '''Revised Standard Version''' ('''RSV''') is an [[Bible translations into English|English translation of the Bible]] published in 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the [[National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA]].<ref name="aboutrsv">{{cite web |url=http://www.ncccusa.org/newbtu/aboutrsv.html |title=About the RSV |publisher=[[National Council of Churches]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518063139/http://www.ncccusa.org/newbtu/aboutrsv.html |access-date=17 August 2020 |archive-date=18 May 2016}}</ref> This translation is a revision of the [[American Standard Version]] (ASV) of 1901,<ref name="Britannica RSV">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Sarna |first=Nahum M. |author-link=Nahum M. Sarna |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |title=Biblical literature - The Revised Standard Version |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/biblical-literature/The-Revised-Standard-Version |date=October 2018 |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]] |location=[[Edinburgh]] |access-date=17 August 2020}}</ref> and was intended to be a readable and literally accurate [[Modern English Bible translations|modern English translation]] which aimed to "preserve all that is best in the English [[Bible]] as it has been known and used through the years" and "to put the message of the Bible in simple, enduring words that are worthy to stand in the great [[Tyndale Bible|Tyndale]]-[[King James Version|King James]] tradition."<ref name="Harrington1979">{{cite book|author=Daniel J. Harrington|title=Interpreting the New Testament: A Practical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_V7xmSHDZIC&pg=PA26|year=1979|publisher=Liturgical Press|isbn=978-0-8146-5124-7|pages=26–}}</ref><ref name="aboutrsv"/>

The RSV was the first translation of the Bible to make use of the [[Isaiah Scroll|Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah]], a development considered "revolutionary" in the [[Academic discipline|academic field]] of [[Biblical studies|biblical scholarship]].<ref name="Britannica RSV"/> The New Testament was first published in 1946, the Old Testament in 1952, and the Apocrypha in 1957; the New Testament was revised in 1971. The original ''[[Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition|Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition]]'' (RSV-CE) was published in 1965&ndash;66, and the [[deuterocanonical books]] were expanded in 1977. The ''Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition'' (RSV-2CE) was published in 2006.

In later years, the RSV served as the basis for two revisions&mdash;the [[New Revised Standard Version]] (NRSV) of 1989, and the [[English Standard Version]] (ESV) of 2001.