I have never owned an edition of the RSV. Some were burned in pulpit back in the early 1950sbecause it was supposed to be so liberal.
From what I know I think on that scale of yours it has to rate around a 7 or so. I take it that the higher the number the greater the similarity it has with the KJV --at least the 1946 New Testament.
The N.T. ERV of 1881 had in even more in common with the KJV --I'd give it a 9. But then again, I have never owned a copy - -- just guessing.
TCassidy once said on here, "it is the transaltion everyone loves to hate"---apologies if I have credited the wrong person.
I have mostly interacted with it through commentaries.
What I have seen has been good. The lone exception has been in Isaiah where it reads "young woman" where almost every other translation says "virgin". Outside of that issue, I think it is a decent revision of the ASV-- from my limited experience with it. It uses the NA as its underlying text, opposed to the ASV which used WH. I believe is also took some OT readings from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
There very well may be issues I am unaware of.
I am uncomfortable assigning a "number" to It, but I would expect it to be similar to the ESV, which I do like and use frequently.
I know some like John Piper love the RSV.
I have tried to acquire a hard copy unsuccessfully in the past.
You are correct. That is my statement. Back in the early 1950s when the RSV was first published much of the Evangelical community disliked the version based on their opinion it showed way too much liberal bias.
I don't like the version for several reasons and would place it at -1 on the scale of 1-10.
But, on the other hand, it was the bible I was reading when God saved my sin sick soul so, as it was able to "make me wise unto salvation" it is, by definition "scripture" and therefore the word of God. A biased translation. Probably. But still the word of God.
Would see the rsv as being a decent translation, save for that infamous Isaiah passage, as I believe thje Esv took over something like 90-95 % of its renderings straight over, and so was not that radical of an update/revision!