Commentary: A new edition of the Bible, with 20,000 revisions, should spark 20,000 thoughtful conversations
by Hal Taussig, Los Angeles Times
Dec 30, 2021
4 minutes
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. (Matthew 24:35)
This sentiment is expressed in at least five other places in the Bible, and yet perhaps the most erudite institution of biblical scholars has just released 20,000 changes in the Bible.
An update to the New Revised Standard Version was released digitally this month and is to be in print next May. As you can imagine, such a task is not undertaken lightly. The update represents more than four years of intense work of the National Council of Churches and a large group of scholars in the Society of Biblical Literature.
The result
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