That Revised Standard Version Again

Our familiar King James Version of 1611 was revised to produce what we call the American Standard Version of 1901, which, it is said, was in turn revised to produce the new Revised Standard Version of 1952.  One would think that with all this revision of revisions that much improvement over the KJV has been accomplished, especially in view of the strange assertion made in the preface to this Bible that “the King James Version has grave defects.”  For the same charge could even more justifiably...