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Originally Posted by Ohio
NIV lost some credibility when the owner Collins (secular) bought the rights from Zondervan (Christians) and attempted a "gender neutral" version, thus de-masculating God.
The revised RecVer came out in 1991, published by Cambridge Press, with gold edging. The binding itself is of top quality. From that point on LSM began to refer to it as the "gold bar" based on its "gold" profile.
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I believe the New Revised Standard Version was the first to go with the "gender neutral" approach for its publication in 1989. It was produced by the American Bible Society. Perhaps the NIV followed suit.
Ohio, I am not challenging your history on the "gold bar" edging but there was an earlier New Testament version, probably from the early 1980s and bound in cheap leatherette, that also had gold edging. It came with a special printed page on how to "break in" your new Recovery New Testament (with cheap leatherette binding that invariably cracked along the front cover).