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Hey Todd,
Is the NRSV the same or similar to the ESV?
Ryan – both of these are revisions of the RSV. The ESV team was more theologically conservative than the NRSV. Largely because the RSV translated Isaiah 7:14 as “young woman” and not “virgin,” conservatives rejected the RSV and the NASB was later born. The NRSV follows with the same bent as the RSV (“young woman”). The ESV seems to be primarily an attempt to replace the NASB, but using the RSV as its starting point (the NASB owners are notoriously impossible to work with). But the ESV adjusts some things, and Isaiah 7:14 is “virgin.”