I'm far from an expert on versions of the Bible, but I can add a few points.
First, the versions available on disk or other electronic form "for
church use" are almost invariably those that are in the public domain.
Economically that makes sense, of course, but it's sad, and I can't
imagine there wouldn't be a market for more recent versions.
Second, the RSV was actually a new version from the Greek; see the long
list of scholars in the introductory material to, e.g., various Oxford
editions. The editions called "ecumenical study bibles" usually include
the deuterocanonical books. The NRSV uses inclusinve language in many
places where the text doesn't rule it out, and identifies as women figures
in Acts for whom the RSV and others had masculinized names (and which the
King James version had not changed).
Alison Anderson
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