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Book Review: Introducting Southern Baptists: Their Faith and Their Life

The articles in this volume are uneven in quality. Smart's evaluation of the Living Bible is too brief, only four and one-half pages, and provides neither background information on the translator nor reason for the translation. Metzger provides eleven pages of background on the RSV and only a couple of pages of evaluation of the translation itself. Most of these essays, though, strike a good balance between giving the who, why, what, and how of the translation and an evaluation of the translation itself. Protestant readers will find especially interesting Bruce Vawter's comments on the situation facing English-speaking Roman Catholics a quarter-century ago regarding reading the Bible.