The Revised Standard Version of the Bible is an authorized revision of the American Standard Version, published in 1901, which was a revision of the King James Version, published in 1611. The first English version of the Scriptures made direct translation from the original Hebrew and Greek, and the first to be printed, was the work of William Tyndale. He was accused of willfully perverting the meaning of the Scriptures, and his New Testaments were ordered to be burned as "untrue translations." He was finally betrayed into the hands of his enemies, and in October 1536, was publicly executed and burned at the stake.
Taken from the preface of the Revised Standard Version ©1952, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Zondervan Bible Publishers. Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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