The Bible Under Fire (1999)

For more than three hundred years the King James Version of the Bible had been dominant Then in 1952 a Revised Standard Version RSV was published to a firestorm of controversy Some dubbed it the Red Bible and called it a Communist plot to undermine American society At the same time the RSV broke sales records This film tells the story of the RSV against the backdrop of American history both secular and sacred It was the first to incorporate the discoveries of the Dead Sea Scrolls the first distinctly American Bible to be a success and the first to be successfully promoted by an advertising agency