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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

ESV Deuterocanonicals

While I generally find the English Standard Version to be a very usable version of Scripture and am very pleased that our communion of churches has adopted the ESV for liturgical use, I am greatly disappointed with one particular item: the lack of inclusion of the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal writings, which I understand were included in Bibles up to and including the 1611 King James Version and even beyond.

Is the ESV editorial board planning to include the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal writings? If so, is such a project underway? If so, when is the anticipated date of completion? The most immediate address of this oversight would be greatly appreciated!

Bishop Craig M. Davis
Presiding Bishop
Christian Church, Synod of St. Timothy