Revised English Bible
Oxford University Press / Cambridge University Press
First published 1989
Revised English Bible
The Revised English Bible (REB) is a thorough revision of the New English Bible (1970), published jointly by Oxford and Cambridge University Presses on September 14, 1989 — coincidentally the same day as the American NRSV. It corrects the NEB's more eccentric renderings, incorporates newer manuscript evidence including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and uses gender-inclusive language where the original texts are clearly inclusive.
History & Background
Commissioned by the same coalition of British churches that produced the NEB, with representatives from the Roman Catholic Church now included as full participants. Donald Coggan served as chairman of the Joint Committee. The REB's revision brought the NEB closer to the Hebrew and Greek originals in many disputed passages, while retaining the literary freshness that distinguished the NEB from the KJV tradition.
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Standard 66-book Protestant canon. An edition with the Apocrypha is also available. The leading British ecumenical translation.