On a June day last year, a group of scholars stood up from their work in a book-cluttered room of the Yale Divinity School to say a short prayer together. It was an important moment for learning and for Protestantism. After 14 years of patient work, their 32-man committee had completed the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the most important English translation of the Scriptures since a slightly larger group of English scholars handed their three-year work to King James I in 1611.
This week the Revised Standard Version was published in the U.S. (Nelson; $6) in a first printing of...
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