Prof. Shively Smith Quoted in Religion News Service Article about New NRSV English Translation
The following is an excerpt from the article “New Revised Standard Version Bible updated with consideration for ‘modern sensibilities’” by Adelle M. Banks, published on November 17, 2021 by Religion News Service. Click here to read the full article. Prof. Smith’s profile can be found here.
Shively T.J. Smith, a New Testament assistant professor at Boston University School of Theology who edited 1-3 John for the project, said she appreciated the range of voices that were heard and considered as the updated edition took shape.
“The NRSVue is an updated English translation that listened broadly and closely to a variety of faith-based constituencies, reading the Bible in our current times,” said Smith, who worked with focus groups and discussed the updated edition with African Methodist Episcopal Church bishops and students in her classroom.
“It attempts to reverse the historic trend in translation history from the 19th and 20th centuries in which some Christian communities and scholars of the Bible were historically excluded from the translation endeavors of our English Bibles.”