The cover of the soon-to-be-released New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.

"Is it important that the skin disease Jesus healed people from wasn’t leprosy as we know it today?

Does it matter whether John the Baptist said he was not fit to untie the “thong” of Jesus’ sandals or the “strap?”

Should a verse in Isaiah be changed from the poetic “wild grapes” to the more accurate “rotten grapes,” even though it is less pleasing to the ear?

The NRSVue, or the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Bible, includes thousands of substantive edits and 20,000 total changes in the Bible translation, which includes alterations in grammar and punctuation, according to Friendship Press. It is an update, not a new translation, which would be a more extensive project.

The answer to all three questions is “yes,” say scholars who worked on the 2021 update to one of the most popular Bible translations, the “New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Bible,” published by Friendship Press."

In addition to the interesting nature of this project, one of the people working on this new edition, the NRSVed, is Jeremiah Cataldo, son of Rev. Chet and Jodi Cataldo of the Dakotas Conference. As Jodi said, "We are pretty proud parents!"

Read the entire UM News article here.