Orthodox RSV New Testaments?

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As I continue my futile quest to find a pocket size RSVCE New Testament/Psalms (one that is truly small enough to fit in the back pocket, that is) I’ve come across two pocket Orthodox RSV New Testament/Psalms which have me very curious. One is a military edition (ASIN: 1585169161) and the other is a youth edition just released last May.

First, I was surprised and happy to discover that the Orthodox Christians are also using the RSV along with Catholics and Protestants. But I’m wondering if the text is the standard unaltered Protestant version, or did they incorporate the Catholic modifications, or come up with their own modifications for a new Orthodox edition?
 
What are the Catholic modifications? I don’t know much about english translations of the Bible, never read one.
 
There is a list of modifications somewhere on the web but I don’t have the URL now. There were not that many changes. As I recall most of the modifications involved those “judgement calls” where the original translators put their preferred reading in the text and an alternative reading in the footnotes, and the subsequent translators felt the alternate reading should be in the text and the other reading in the footnotes. I might be oversimplifying, though.
 
My RSVCE includes notes to many variations. Although it is a full size large print bible, I still bring it with me many places. The main difference between the catholic rsv and the Protestant rsv is the lack of the deuterocanonicals the Protestant version has.
 
Russ_of_Tokyo said:
As I continue my futile quest to find a pocket size RSVCE New Testament/Psalms (one that is truly small enough to fit in the back pocket, that is) I’ve come across two pocket Orthodox RSV New Testament/Psalms which have me very curious. One is a military edition (ASIN: 1585169161) and the other is a youth edition just released last May.

First, I was surprised and happy to discover that the Orthodox Christians are also using the RSV along with Catholics and Protestants. But I’m wondering if the text is the standard unaltered Protestant version, or did they incorporate the Catholic modifications, or come up with their own modifications for a new Orthodox edition?
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The Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. published,** ‘The Orthodox Study Bible’** a few years ago, and they use the New King James Version for the new Testament and their own translation of the Septuagint called, ‘St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint’ (which also relies heavily on the NKJV O.T.). But I have heard of other Orthodox members using the RSV, RSV-CE and RSV-2CE, but I will let them speak for them selves on this matter.
 
I heard many complaints about the OSB LXX translation.
 
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I heard many complaints about the OSB LXX translation.
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Which translation of the Bible haven’t you heard complaints about. 🤷 I have read the reviews, and there are people who really like it and those who don’t, the only way to know for sure is to read it and compare with other translations.
 
There aren’t that many LXX translations out there. Two, maybe three.
 
It’s the protestant. I think You would be fine with the Orthodox Bible - no it’s not translated for Orthodox theology.
In some issues of the RSV-CE there is a full appendix with the differences between the protestant version and the -CE. Look at at in a library and make the correction to Your RSV with a pen and Tip-ex. EDIT: almost forgot to mention: some of the differences are listed in the Wikipedia article, search on RSV Catholic Edition (the article about the original CE, not about 2CE).
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But I’m wondering if the text is the standard unaltered Protestant version, or did they incorporate the Catholic modifications, or come up with their own modifications for a new Orthodox edition?
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Or if You’re OK with some other version that fits the pocket, You can find the 1992 GNTD as leather bound. It’s in very convenient format and the leather slides very well.
amazon.com/Catholic-Orange-Leather-Zipper-GNTDC035CZ/dp/8941290066/ref=sr_1_22?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341778098&sr=1-22&keywords=good+news+bible+leather
and: amazon.com/Good-News-English-Bible-Beautiful/dp/8941290082/ref=sr_1_26?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1341778164&sr=1-26&keywords=good+news+bible+leather
I have the red one - it looks better in reality than on the photo.
You can donate a portion of Your purchase to the Center for the Study of the New Testament Manuscripts. This procedure doesn’t cost You anything. Only requirement is that You use the specific link found on: csntm.org/ to Amazon when You actually make the buy. Don’t type Amazon.com in the address bar. Blog post “New Ways to Help Support CSNTM
Robert Marcello
Tuesday, March 13, 2012”
 
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