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2023-03-09

Our Divinity Library just opened a small exhibit on "Biblical Scholarship at YDS: A Bicentennial Retrospective" which traces the development of the biblical studies faculty and includes records of the committee that produced the Revised Standard Version Bible.

PDF online content: divinity-adhoc.library.yale.ed

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A page from a magazine article, black and white. Art of a bible at the top "Holy Bible Revised Standard Version". Headline "Is this book 'Blasphemous'?"
Sub head: Readers of the new Revised Standard Bible, caught between the bitter tirades of its critics and the exuberant claims of its friends, seek honest answers to questions that are confusing them. Here are those answers, chapter and verse. By A. Clay Sicher.

A photo of Rev. Sicher is to the left with a bio in a black outlined frame: "A graduate of the Moody Bible Institute in 1929..." More bio and the start of the article at at the bottom of the the page.A black and white pamphlet with text:
"Whose Unclean Fingers Have Been Tampering With The Holy Bible, God’s Pure, Infallible, Verbally Inspired Word?”

A discussion of the FACTS concerning the new Revised Standard Version of the Bible, edited and copyrighted by the National (Federal) Council of Churches.

(Copies of this pamphlet may be secured by writing the Book Table, Wealthy Street Baptist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan. No charge for as many as you can prayerfully use. We would appreciate any contribution to pay for the printing for as wide a distribution as possible. }
12th Printing (Total copies printed — 94,350) by David Otis Fuller, D.D., PastorThe cover of a printed brochure. Text is "The Revised Standard Version - A Sad Travesty - A Review" by Joseph Hoffman Cohn, Copyright 1952 by American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc. there is blue ink handwriting at the top 1/31/53.A glass vitrine in a library with dark wood and leather wing-backed chairs. A paper sign in the vitrine reads "Biblical Scholarship at YDS: A Bicentennial Retrospective. Numerous papers and photos are visible.
2023-02-06

What makes the library’s Special Collections ‘special’? An interview with Scott Libson ’06 M.A.R., the new Special Collections Librarian for the Divinity Library.

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A smiling man wearing tortoise-shell glasses and an open collar checked pattern shirt. He has slightly graying hair, beard, and mustache. He has a high, academic forehead. He is standing in front of a large shelf of bound volumes of books in a library. He looks like he would be happy to help you find the book you're looking for.

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