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text. Scholars are interested in each printing since any change in wording or typos can be significant. Perhaps in our secular 
society that is no longer meaningful.

The proposal also calls for eliminating the Alternative option for facsimile reproductions in RDA 6.30.3.2 Authorized 
Access Point Representing an Expression of a Religious Work. This means that catalogers will record only the date of the 
original publication of that text of the Bible.  If the text is a facsimile of a 1535 edition of the Bible, the only Bible authorized 
access point will include the 1535 date.  There will not be an entry to indicate that this is a 2010 printing of that facsimile.

Submitted by
Judy Knop, Metadata Curator
American Theological Library Association

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Murray State University