Editing Revised Standard Version (section)

== Post-1952 developments ==
=== Catholic Edition ===
{{Main|Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition}}

In 1965–66, the [[Catholic Biblical Association]] adapted, under the editorship of [[Bernard Orchard|John Archibald Henslowe Orchard]] [[Benedictines|O.S.B.]] and [[Reginald C. Fuller]], the RSV for [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] use with the release of the [[Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition|'''Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSV-CE)''']]. A revised New Testament was published in 1965, followed by a full RSV Catholic Edition Bible in 1966. The RSV Catholic Edition included revisions up through 1962, a small number of new revisions to the New Testament, mostly to return to familiar phrases, and changes to a few footnotes. It contains the [[deuterocanonical]] books of the Old Testament placed in the traditional order of the [[Vulgate]].
=== Second Edition of the New Testament ===
Some of these changes to the RSV New Testament had already been introduced in the 1965-66 RSV Catholic Edition, and their introduction into the RSV itself was done to pave the way for the publication of the Common Bible in 1973.

The Standard Bible Committee intended to prepare a second edition of the Old Testament,<ref>"English Versions of the Bible". From ''The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Revised Standard Version'', New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.</ref> but those plans were scrapped in 1974, when the National Council of Churches voted to authorize [[New Revised Standard Version|a full revision of the RSV]].

=== Common Bible ===
The ''Common Bible'' of 1973 ordered the books in a way that pleased both [[Catholic]]s and [[Protestant]]s{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}. It was divided into four sections: 
# '''The Old Testament''' (39 Books)
# '''The Catholic Deuterocanonical Books''' (12 Books)
# '''The additional Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanonical Books''' (three Books; six Books after 1977)
# '''The New Testament''' (27 Books)

=== Reader's Digest Bible ===
In 1982, ''[[Reader's Digest]]'' published a special edition of the RSV that was billed as a condensed edition of the text. A team of seven editors led by [[John Evangelist Walsh]] produced the manuscript. The ''Reader's Digest'' edition was intended for those who did not read the Bible or who read it infrequently; it was not intended as a replacement of the full RSV text. In this version, 55% of the Old Testament and 25% of the New Testament were cut. Familiar passages such as the [[Lord's Prayer]], [[Psalm 23]], and the [[Ten Commandments]] were retained. For those who wanted the full RSV, ''Reader's Digest'' provided a list of publishers that sold the complete RSV at that time.

=== Second Catholic Edition ===
In early 2006, [[Ignatius Press]] released the [[Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition#RSV Second Catholic Edition (RSV-2CE)|''Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition'']] (RSV-2CE). This second edition removed archaic pronouns (''thee'', ''thou''), and accompanying verb forms (''didst'', ''speakest''), revised passages used in the lectionary according to the Vatican document ''Liturgiam authenticam'', and elevated some passages out of the RSV footnotes when they favored Catholic renderings, such as replacing "young woman" with "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14.