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...BRUCE M. METZGER probably has saved more trees than Smokey the Bear, and Metzger doesn't even live in the woods. Or at least not literally. A New Testament scholar, Metzger was chosen by Reader's Digest to edit its new edition of the Bible. At the beginning of this month, Reader's Digest published its condensed version, which excludes more than a quarter of a million words from the Holy Scriptures Among other things. Metzger cut half the Old Testament The best known passages remain intact--creation still takes a full week--but some repetitious portions were nixed. Metzger...
...folks as Reader's Digest offer several explanations for their revised Bible Chief among them stands their wish to make the Bible more readable and approachable. "This is a Bible meant for reading, not for study," Metzger recently told Newsweek...
...project began in 1976 when the Digest won the approval of the National Council of Churches, which holds copyright to the Revised Standard Version. As general editor, the Digest recruited the Rev. Bruce M. Metzger of Princeton Theological Seminary, a distinguished Bible expert, to supervise the work of nine staff condensers. Despite the inevitable jokes to come about the Six Commandments or the 4.2 Days of Creation, the team wisely left unshrunk the best-known passages, like the 23rd Psalm. Instead they applied the scissors to parallel accounts, such as the dozens of stories concerning Jesus Christ that appear...
What justifies such a venture? Metzger hopes that once people have been lured into his 60% rendition, "a sizable proportion who have never cracked the cover of a Bible will go on to read the whole thing." The Digest contends that the Bible is all too little read, because many sections are rough going for the typical reader. Undoubtedly so, but such people could use one of the readable modern translations of the real thing (such as the Good News Bible or New International Version) and skip the slow parts...
...charge of the RSV revision is the Rev. Bruce M. Metzger, 66, a gentlemanly New Testament professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. While Metzger is conservative on matters of doc trine, he is willing to avoid male nouns and pronouns-where the original Hebrew and Greek texts allow it. Thus the reference in Romans 14: 1 to "the man who is weak in faith" will likely become "the one who is weak . . ." In Psalms, the first verse will read "Blessed are those who walk not in the counsel of the wicked," rather than "Blessed is the man who walks...