{
  "abbrev": "NRSVue",
  "catalog": {
    "id": "01a1621f-dc98-769d-8ace-78e3d88a3d8c",
    "slug": "translations/nrsvue",
    "name": "New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition",
    "listing_type": "bible_translation",
    "summary": "A 2021 update of the 1989 NRSV, translated as literally as possible and as freely as necessary, with gender-inclusive English for people in general. Editions with the Apocrypha and a Catholic Edition are published.",
    "status": "listed",
    "editorial_disclosure": null,
    "facets": {
      "audience": [],
      "faith_relationship": "not_stated",
      "languages": [
        "en"
      ],
      "purpose": [],
      "topics": [],
      "tradition": []
    },
    "facts": {
      "abbreviation": {
        "value": "NRSVue",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ]
      },
      "availability": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "book_naming_conventions": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "canon_and_included_books": {
        "value": [
          "66 books in Protestant editions; editions with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books and a Catholic Edition are published"
        ],
        "display_value": "66 books in Protestant editions; editions with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books and a Catholic Edition are published",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_canon"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "copyright_and_permissions": {
        "value": {
          "statement": "Copyright 2021, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Up to 500 verses may be quoted without written permission if they are less than 25 percent of the work and not an entire book of the Bible"
        },
        "display_value": "Copyright 2021, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Up to 500 verses may be quoted without written permission if they are less than 25 percent of the work and not an entire book of the Bible",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_licence"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "current_text_revision": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "deuterocanonical_books": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "divine_name_rendering": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "faith_relationship": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "first_published": {
        "value": {
          "statement": "NRSV 1989; Updated Edition 2021"
        },
        "display_value": "NRSV 1989; Updated Edition 2021",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_first_published"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "full_name": {
        "value": "New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ]
      },
      "gender_related_language_approach": {
        "value": "The preface says the update continues the effort to eliminate masculine-oriented language for people in general where this does not alter passages that reflect ancient patriarchal culture; inclusiveness is mostly attained by rephrasing or plural forms",
        "display_value": "The preface says the update continues the effort to eliminate masculine-oriented language for people in general where this does not alter passages that reflect ancient patriarchal culture; inclusiveness is mostly attained by rephrasing or plural forms",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_gender_language"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "idioms_and_cultural_terms_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "intended_audience": {
        "value": [],
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Existing editorial audience classification; no safety certification."
      },
      "known_format_dependent_differences": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "languages": {
        "value": [
          "en"
        ],
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated listing language; additional languages have not been inferred."
      },
      "made_by": {
        "value": null,
        "display_value": "Commissioned by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, which holds the copyright; the Society of Biblical Literature directed the revision; licensing is handled through Friendship Press, the Council's publishing arm",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_made_by"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "new_testament_textual_basis": {
        "value": "Eclectic Greek text: the UBS Greek New Testament, 5th revised edition (2014), the SBL Greek New Testament (2010) and, for Acts and the Catholic Letters, the Editio Critica Maior; a few passages regarded as later additions are kept in double brackets",
        "display_value": "Eclectic Greek text: the UBS Greek New Testament, 5th revised edition (2014), the SBL Greek New Testament (2010) and, for Acts and the Catholic Letters, the Editio Critica Maior; a few passages regarded as later additions are kept in double brackets",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_nt_text"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "new_testament_translation_method_notes": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "official_digital_access": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "official_translation_principles_source": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "official_website": {
        "value": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated existing official link; not newly fetched or verified."
      },
      "old_testament_textual_basis": {
        "value": "Masoretic Text as printed in Biblia Hebraica Quinta for the books published so far and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia for the rest; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint consulted; Apocrypha from Rahlfs and Göttingen Septuagint editions",
        "display_value": "Masoretic Text as printed in Biblia Hebraica Quinta for the books published so far and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia for the rest; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint consulted; Apocrypha from Rahlfs and Göttingen Septuagint editions",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_ot_text"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "old_testament_translation_method_notes": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "poetry_and_literary_form_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "previous_and_related_revisions": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "public_domain_or_license_status": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "publisher_parent_organization": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "quotation_and_red_letter_conventions": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "reading_level": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "recommended_age_maximum": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "recommended_age_minimum": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "regional_publisher": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "revision_or_release_year": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "rights_holder": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "sample_passages": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "source_languages": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "specific_affiliation": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "supplied_words_typography": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "textual_variants_and_footnotes": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "tradition_or_perspective": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translation_approach_explanation": {
        "value": "Guided by the maxim \"as literal as possible, as free as necessary\"; the publisher describes it as a literal translation in current English",
        "display_value": "Guided by the maxim \"as literal as possible, as free as necessary\"; the publisher describes it as a literal translation in current English",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_philosophy"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "translation_classification": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translation_committee": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translation_language": {
        "value": [
          "en"
        ],
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ]
      },
      "translation_project_history": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translator_footnote_examples": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "units_currency_and_measures_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "versification_system": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "what_it_contains": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      }
    },
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "legacy_metadata",
        "url": null,
        "title": "Existing editorial catalog metadata",
        "publisher": "Christian Rated",
        "source_kind": "documentation",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": "content/resources/translations/nrsvue.yaml",
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_made_by",
        "url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue",
        "title": "Friendship Press, about the NRSVue",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_philosophy",
        "url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue",
        "title": "Friendship Press, about the NRSVue",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_ot_text",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
        "title": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_nt_text",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
        "title": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_canon",
        "url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/nrsvue-quick-faq",
        "title": "Friendship Press, licensing and permissions",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_grade_level",
        "url": null,
        "title": "Publisher pages checked",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_gender_language",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
        "title": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_committee",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
        "title": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_licence",
        "url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/nrsvue-quick-faq",
        "title": "Friendship Press, licensing and permissions",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_first_published",
        "url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/nrsvue-quick-faq",
        "title": "Friendship Press, licensing and permissions",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      }
    ],
    "faq_answers": [],
    "relationships": {},
    "maker_claim": {
      "status": "unclaimed"
    }
  },
  "catalog_schema_version": "2.0.0",
  "category": "bibles",
  "edition": "2021",
  "editions": [
    {
      "ID": "01a1765c-de04-7925-83da-a66415180453",
      "Slug": "2021",
      "Label": "2021 Updated Edition",
      "Note": "current",
      "Current": true
    },
    {
      "ID": "01a1765c-de04-7010-9bd7-7830ff4920d1",
      "Slug": "1989",
      "Label": "1989 NRSV",
      "Note": "superseded",
      "Current": false
    }
  ],
  "facts": [
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "made_by",
      "label": "Made by",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Friendship Press, about the NRSVue",
      "source_url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Commissioned by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, which holds the copyright; the Society of Biblical Literature directed the revision; licensing is handled through Friendship Press, the Council's publishing arm"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "philosophy",
      "label": "Translation philosophy",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Friendship Press, about the NRSVue",
      "source_url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/about-the-nrsvue",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Guided by the maxim \"as literal as possible, as free as necessary\"; the publisher describes it as a literal translation in current English"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "ot_text",
      "label": "Textual basis, Old Testament",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Masoretic Text as printed in Biblia Hebraica Quinta for the books published so far and Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia for the rest; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint consulted; Apocrypha from Rahlfs and Göttingen Septuagint editions"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "nt_text",
      "label": "Textual basis, New Testament",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Eclectic Greek text: the UBS Greek New Testament, 5th revised edition (2014), the SBL Greek New Testament (2010) and, for Acts and the Catholic Letters, the Editio Critica Maior; a few passages regarded as later additions are kept in double brackets"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "canon",
      "label": "Canon",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Friendship Press, licensing and permissions",
      "source_url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/nrsvue-quick-faq",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "66 books in Protestant editions; editions with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books and a Catholic Edition are published"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "grade_level",
      "label": "Reading grade level",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Publisher pages checked",
      "source_url": "",
      "status": "not_published",
      "value": "No published figure"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "gender_language",
      "label": "Gender language",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "The preface says the update continues the effort to eliminate masculine-oriented language for people in general where this does not alter passages that reflect ancient patriarchal culture; inclusiveness is mostly attained by rephrasing or plural forms"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "committee",
      "label": "Committee",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "NRSVue preface, To the Reader (Bible Gateway)",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/New-Revised-Standard-Version-Updated-Edition-NRSVue-Bible/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "A Society of Biblical Literature team of seven general editors and fifty-six book editors, with two liaisons from the Council's Bible Translation and Utilization Advisory Committee; work ran from 2017 to 2021"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "licence",
      "label": "Licence and quotation",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Friendship Press, licensing and permissions",
      "source_url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/nrsvue-quick-faq",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Copyright 2021, National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Up to 500 verses may be quoted without written permission if they are less than 25 percent of the work and not an entire book of the Bible"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "first_published",
      "label": "First published",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Friendship Press, licensing and permissions",
      "source_url": "https://www.friendshippress.org/pages/nrsvue-quick-faq",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "NRSV 1989; Updated Edition 2021"
    }
  ],
  "is_ours": false,
  "kind": "translation",
  "language": "en",
  "links": [
    {
      "disclosure": "",
      "edition": "",
      "enabled": false,
      "enabled_by": "",
      "format": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "kind": "read",
      "label": "Read online at Bible Gateway",
      "ours": false,
      "paid": false,
      "region": "",
      "seller": "",
      "seller_name": "",
      "url": ""
    }
  ],
  "listing_type": "bible_translation",
  "maker": {
    "made_by": "ministry",
    "name": "National Council of Churches",
    "source_url": "https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/about-us/"
  },
  "name": "New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition",
  "primary_category": "bibles",
  "slug": "translations/nrsvue",
  "stats": {
    "computed_at": "2026-10-26T05:40:51Z",
    "confidence": "few",
    "counted": 0,
    "event_count": 140,
    "log_hash": "1d39701efc13bae6a2521aafddb90f0a819613002d8a05a2f454c9edf374cf73",
    "meters": {},
    "scoring_version": "v2",
    "segments": null,
    "written": 0,
    "yes": 0
  },
  "tags": [
    "canon-66",
    "textual-critical"
  ],
  "vetted_stats": {
    "LogSeq": 139,
    "LogHash": "1d39701efc13bae6a2521aafddb90f0a819613002d8a05a2f454c9edf374cf73",
    "ComputedAt": "2026-10-26T05:40:51.321389151Z",
    "Version": "v2",
    "CountedN": 0,
    "YesN": 0,
    "WrittenN": 0,
    "TapN": 0,
    "Share": null,
    "Confidence": "few",
    "Meters": {},
    "Segments": null,
    "VerifiedN": 0,
    "VettedN": 0,
    "NotesN": 0,
    "PublishedN": 0,
    "NotCountedN": 0,
    "RemovedN": 0,
    "RemovedDetail": {
      "mixed": 0,
      "negative": 0,
      "positive": 0,
      "reasons": {}
    },
    "Languages": {},
    "Debated": 0
  }
}