Reply #8: The original RSV may be the most accurate translation... [View All]

[regnaD kciN]

...but its style, halfway between the King James Version and modern English, practically redefines "clunky."

The NRSV is much nicer to read, and almost as accurate. Where it falls short in that department is owing to a concern to be "gender-neutral," and thus rewriting the text to de-masculanize certain passages that equate "male" with "universal." A laudable intention, to be sure, but sometimes it seems to me that they "neuter" passages which are explicitly intended to refer to one gender. Not a big deal to me, but it does make it marginally less true to the original texts.

For reading aloud, without any need for scholarly use, I prefer the 1960s-era New English Bible.