English Revised Version (1885)

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The Revised Version was a revision of the King James Version made under the auspices of the Church of England but involving scholars from other denominations, including Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, and Unitarians. American scholars also participated in the project.

The goal was to bring the English Bible into better alignment with recent scholarship and to revise obsolete language. The revisers also employed recent manuscript discoveries, making this one of the first translations to make use of modern textual critical methods.

The Revised Version is the link between the King James Version and the American Standard Version (1901).

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