Revised Standard Version Bible Committee Records, 1929-1975

National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Revised Standard Version

The Revised Standard Version Bible Committee, organized c. 1929, operated for a short time and then was dormant until 1937. The RSVBC is the Committee of the Division of Education and Ministry (prior to 1972 the Division of Christian Education) of the National Council of Churches of Christ of the U.S.A. which translated the Revised Standard Version (New Testament 1946 and revised 1972, Old Testament 1952, and Apocrypha 1957). Professor Clarence Craig of the Graduate School of Theology became a member of the New Testament and Apocrypha Sections in 1938. Professor Herbert G. May, a member of the Standard Bible Committee (which became the RSVBC) from 1945 and chairman from 1966 to 1976, was head of the Old Testament section from 1960 until his death in 1977. From the Committee's inception until 1966 the chairman was Luther A. Weigle of Yale University Divinity School. The office of the RSVBC remained at New Haven until 1972 when it was moved to Oberlin College (1972-76) and then was transferred to Princeton Divinity School.

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