Editing Revised Standard Version (section)

== Publication and promotion ==
The immediate predecessor to the RSV was the [[American Standard Version]] (ASV), published in 1901 by [[Thomas Nelson (publisher)|Thomas Nelson & Sons]].  It was copyrighted to protect the ASV text from unauthorized changes, and that copyright acquired by the International Council of Religious Education, one of the predecessor organizations to the [[National Council of Churches]], which was formed in 1950.  In 1928, the Council created a committee charged with creating a new translation based on the ASV, which was considered a somewhat weak and disappointing translation.  [[Luther A. Weigle]] became its chair and helped find members; the final committee began meeting in 1937 at [[Yale Divinity School]] where they did their work.<ref name="nhr">{{cite news |last= |first= |date=February 14, 1971 |title=Luther Allan Weigle |url=https://www.biola.edu/talbot/ce20/database/luther-allan-weigle |work=New Haven Register |location= |access-date=December 31, 2023}}</ref>

A number of specially bound presentation copies were given to local public officials in the days prior to the general release. One such presentation copy, the very first copy of the RSV Bible to come off the press, was presented by Weigle to an appreciative President [[Harry S. Truman]] on September 26, four days before it was released to the general public.<ref>{{Cite speech|title=Remarks to Representatives of the National Council of Churches|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-representatives-the-national-council-churches|access-date=4 April 2021|last=Truman|first=Harry|author-link=Harry S. Truman|location=Washington D.C.|date=26 September 1952}}</ref>

On September 30, 1952, the RSV Bible was released to the general public. The NCC sponsored a celebratory rally in [[Washington D.C.]], with representatives of the churches affiliated with it present. A total of 3,418 interdenominational religious gatherings across [[North America]] were held that evening to honor the new version and the translators who made it possible.<ref name="Thuesen2002">{{cite book|author=Peter Johannes Thuesen|author-link=Peter Johannes Thuesen|title=In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Parz1Sxd8BsC&pg=PA97|date=1 May 2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515228-9|pages=90}}</ref>