What is the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition Bible?
The Revised Standard Version – Catholic Edition is typically referred to as the RSV Bible or the RSV Catholic Bible or RSV-CE (Catholic Edition). RSV-CE Is the most correct title, as there is a non-Catholic RSV Bible. It is also referred to as the Ignatius Catholic Bible, because the RSV-CE had been unavailable for a short time in the early 1990s until Ignatius Press revived the printing of this translation. It is now also printed by other publishers, in addition to Ignatius. The RSV-CE is the Catholic edition of the Revised Standard Version. The RSV translation was a joint project between Catholics and non-Catholics beginning in the 1940s. The Catholic edition was formally published in 1965, and an updated version was published in 2006. (The NRSV was published in 1989, which will be discussed below.) The textual basis for this translation is as follows: New Testament: Correspondence to older editions of Novum Testamentum Graece (this is the Latin name for the Greek New Testament). Old
