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American Standard (later RSV) Bible Committee

New Testament Section, 1946

  • Professor William Park Armstrong, Princeton Theological Seminary | member of the committee from 1930–1937 | died Mar. 25 1944.
  • Reverend Walter Russell Bowie, Grace Church, New York | 1937–1969 | d. Apr 23, 1969.
  • Professor Millar Burrows, Yale University | 1938–1972 | d. Apr. 29, 1980.
  • Professor Henry Joel Cadbury, Harvard University | 1930–1974 | Oct 7, 1974.
  • Professor Clarence Tucker Craig, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology | 1938–1953 | d. 1953.
  • Professor Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, University of Chicago | 1930–1962 | d. Jan. 13, 1962.
  • President Frederick Clifton Grant, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary | 1937–1974 | d. Jul. 11, 1974.
  • Professor James Moffatt, Union Theological Seminary | 1930–1944 | d. June 27, 1944.
  • Professor Archibald T. Robertson, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | 1930–1934 | d. Sept. 24, 1934.
  • Professor James Hardy Ropes, Harvard University | 1930–1932 | d. Jan. 7, 1933.
  • Professor Andrew Warren Sledd, Emory University | 1930–1937 | d. Mar. 16, 1939.
  • Dean Luther Allan Weigle, Yale University Divinity School | 1929–1976 | Sep. 2, 1976.
  • President Abdel R. Wentz, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg | 1938–1976 | d. 1976.

Additional NT Members added 1960

  • Francis W. Beare
  • Sherman E. Johnson
  • John Knox

Old Testament Section, 1952

  • Professor William F. Albright, Johns Hopkins University | 1945–1970 | d. 1971
  • Professor Julius August Bewer, Union Theological Seminary | 1930–1951, 2Kg, Est, Ecc, Pss, Ezk, Dn, Am, Jonah, Hag, Mal, NT | d. Sep. 1, 1953
  • Professor Millar Burrows, Yale University | 1938–1972 | Pr, Ecc, Is | d. 1980
  • Professor George Dahl, Yale University | 1937–1962 | 1Kg, Pss, Is, NT | d. 1962
  • President Frederick C. Eiselen, Garrett Biblical Institute | 1929–1937 | d. May 5, 1937. |
  • Professor Alexander Reid Gordon, United Theological College, Montreal | 1930 | d. 1930.
  • Professor John Phillip Hyatt, Vanderbilt University | 1945–1972 | Jer | d. Nov. 6. 1972.
  • Professor William Andrew Irwin, University of Chicago | 1937–1967, 2Kg | 1Ch, Ecc, Job, Jer, Dn, Nah | d. Apr. 1967
  • Professor Herbert Gordon May, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology | 1945–1977 | Jer | d. 1977
  • Professor James Moffatt, Union Theological Seminary | 1930–1944 | 1Kg | 1Ch, Am, Jonah, Hag, Zc, Mal | d. June 27, 1944.
  • Professor James Alan Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania | 1930–1937 | 1Kg | d. Feb. 6, 1949
  • Professor James Muilenburg, Pacific School of Religion | 1945–1974 | Is, Ob | d. 1974
  • Professor Harry M. Orlinsky, Jewish Institute of Religion, New York | 1945–1992 | d. Mar. 21, 1992.
  • Professor John Merlin Powis Smith, University of Chicago | 1930–1932 | d. Sept. 26. 1932
  • President John R. Sampey, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | 1929–1938 | d. Aug. 18, 1946
  • Dean Willard Learoyd Sperry, Harvard University Divinity School | 1937–1954, 1–2Kg, Job, Pss, Sg, Jer, Lam, Ezk, Hos, Joel, Jonah, NT | d. May 15, 1954.
  • Professor William Robert Taylor, University of Toronto | 1931–1951, 1–2Kg, Est, Ecc, Job, Pss, Is, Lam, Ezk, Am, Jonah, Zp, Hag, Zc | d. 1951.
  • Professor Charles Cutler Torrey, Yale University | 1930–1937. | 1Kg. Pss | Nov. 12, 1956
  • Professor Leroy Waterman, University of Michigan | 1937–1972, 1–2Kg | 1Ch, Est, Sg, Jer, Ezk, Dn, Hos, Joel, NT | d. May 9, 1972
  • Dean Luther Allan Weigle, Yale University Divinity School | 1929–1976 | Sep. 2, 1976.
  • Professor Kyle Monroe Yates, Sr., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary | 1938–1975 | 2Kg, Hag, Zc | d. Feb. 15, 1975

Additional OT Members added 1960

  • Raymond A. Bowman
  • Frank M. Cross
  • Robert C. Dentan
  • Marvin H. Pope
  • Alfred von Rohr Sauer

Apocrypha Committee, 1957

  • Professor Millar Burrows, Yale University | 1938–1972 | d. Apr. 29, 1980.
  • Professor Henry Joel Cadbury, Harvard University | 1930–1974 | Oct 7, 1974.
  • Professor Clarence Tucker Craig, Oberlin Graduate School of Theology | 1938–1953 | d. 1953.
  • Floyd V. Filson
  • President Frederick Clifton Grant, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary | 1937–1974 | d. Jul. 11, 1974.
  • Bruce Manning Metzger | d. Feb 13, 2007
  • Robert H. Pfeiffer
  • Allen Paul Wikgren | d. 1998
  • Dean Luther Allan Weigle, Yale University Divinity School | 1929–1976 | Sep. 2, 1976.
  • Roy G. Ross
  • Dr. Paul C. Payne, Chairman ICRE, General Secretary Presbyterian Board of Christian Education | 1948–.
  • Gerald E. Knoff

Expanded Apocrypha Committee, 1977

  • Demetrios J. Constantelos | d. Jan. 10, 2017
  • Sherman Elbridge Johnson | d. Mar. 23, 1993
  • Robert A. Kraft
  • Bruce Manning Metzger | d. Feb 13, 2007
  • Allen Paul Wikgren | d. 1998