Cambridge University Press has officially announced that the NRSVue Diadem Reference Bible will be published on June 4th. There will be three cover options with the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books:
Black calf split leather
Brown calfskin
Cherry red calfskin
Cambridge is currently offering a 30% discount code for pre-orders placed before the publication date. See the official Cambridge announcement linked above for details. The discount brings the purchase price close to what I would expect to see from third-party sellers after the Bible is released. I just preordered the brown calfskin edition for $248.50 (plus shipping and sales tax).
I’m not fully up to date on the lingo. Is the NRSVue Diadem Reference Bible with Apocrypha essentially just the NRSVue version of the old NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha from Cambridge?
Overall, the Diadem format is quite similar to the old reference edition. The font size in the Diadem is slightly smaller (8.1 pt compared to 8.75 pt in the old reference edition), and the center reference column is wider in the Diadem. I have a copy of the ESV Diadem with Apocrypha, and its thickness from front to back is significantly thinner than the NRSV reference edition. The length and width are close to the same.
Thanks, Marc! Personally, I treat my NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha as more of a textbook Bible than a devotional Bible, and so I went with the hardcover back then. But since this Didadem is only available in leather, I’ll sit it out until Cambridge publishes a hardcover equivalent for the NRSVue. As an aside, it’s rather eye-popping how quickly the original NRSV with Apocrypha has disappeared from online retailers.
Two other key details from the official announcement:
1. This will be a black-letter edition (the words of Christ will be printed in black, unlike the ESV Diadem, which is a red-letter Bible)
2. The biblical text will be the “international text” (the original American text produced by the translation committee), as opposed to the Anglicized text, which was used in Cambridge’s NRSVue Popular Text edition.
I see that the 6th edition of the New Oxford Annotated Bible (NRSV-UE) is coming out in June.
I think it has been postponed. The product page on the Oxford Univ. Press website says that the sixth edition will ship on October 1st: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-new-oxford-annotated-bible-9780197633564?lang=en&cc=us
The ship date has been changed multiple times. I remember it was scheduled for June, then it was changed to early November, and now the date has been moved earlier to October 1st.
The Oxford site also shows that the 3rd edition of the Jewish Annotated New Testament, now with the NRSVue, is forthcoming. It looks like 2026 and 2027 are going to be big years when a lot of study editions that used the NRSV will be replaced with their new NRSVue counterparts.
The UK website still says 26 June. We wait to see!
Now the US Oxford site shows a publication date of January 15th 2027. The date changed more than once yesterday (I checked the site a few times). I have no idea when it will be available in the US. Hopefully the UK date is correct, and it can be purchased through Blackwells or something similar.