September 5th, 2008
Recent posts from the ESV Study Bible Blog:
September 3rd, 2008
Our colleagues at Crossway have just launched a book blog that will “keep you informed about all the latest happenings with Crossway—news, interviews, behind-the-scenes information, sample chapters, and more!” Subscribe to the RSS feed.
September 1st, 2008
The New York Times ran a story over the weekend on new ways of visualizing data. One of the two images that accompany the article is our visualization of New Testament social networks.
The article talks about how the emergence of open data on the Internet—and sites like Many Eyes that let you visualize the data—help “democratize the tools of visualization.” The article quotes University of Maryland, College Park, professor Ben Schneiderman: “The gift of the Internet is that everyone can participate, and the tools can be brought to a much wider audience…. The great fun of information visualization, is that it gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had.”
Over the centuries, scholars have produced vast quantities of data about the Bible. Making available these data in both raw and visualized form presents, we believe, a big (and cross-disciplinary) opportunity for biblical scholarship in the twenty-first century.
August 29th, 2008
The Ephesians 4:14 blog has released a WordPress Sermons Plugin. It lets you upload and search for sermons from your church by preacher, service, tag, series, and more. You can embed video or audio of the sermon right in your post, and the plugin uses the ESV API to display the relevant passage while someone is listening to the sermon.
This plugin is a great idea and a great use of technology. If you use WordPress as the backend for your church’s website, you should definitely check it out. If we’d change anything, we’d probably make entering the sermon’s Bible passages less structured: provide a text box and let people enter the passage references freeform. Then use queryInfo to extract the relevant passages.
Via Blogging Ministry.
August 27th, 2008
Yesterday was our 500th tweet on Twitter. That means you’ve been getting a verse every day (to be precise, you’ve been getting the first 140 characters of a verse on days when our power company feels we’re deserving of electricity and our ISP graces us with Internet access) since March 2007. Currently, 569 of you follow the daily verse. Thanks!
Relatedly, Isaiah at Word and Verse recently wrote Twittering Faith, which looks at ways a few ministries (Ligonier, Desiring God, and Mark Driscoll) are twittering.
August 25th, 2008
Dan at Ramblin’ Pastor Man shares J. I. Packer’s definition of expository preaching:
Expository preaching is the preaching of the man who knows Holy Scripture to be the living Word of the living God, and who desires only that it should be free to speak its own message to sinful men and women; who therefore preaches from a text, and in preaching labors, as the Puritans would say, to ‘open’ it, or, in [Charles] Simeon’s phrase, to ‘bring out of the text what is there’; whose whole aim in preaching is to show his hearers what the text is saying to them about God and about themselves, and to lead them into what Barth called ‘the strange new world within the Bible’ in order that they may be met by him who is the Lord of that world.
Dan goes on to unpack this definition (while quoting from the ESV) in the rest of the post. You can read J. I. Packer’s compete essay at Crossway’s site.
August 22nd, 2008
Did you know that there are several unofficial ESV groups on Facebook? Neither did we. Go join one or more of them now (if you want). Thanks to everyone who’s already a member; you’re way ahead of us.
Here are all the active groups we could find:
August 20th, 2008
Brian at Under God’s Hands writes about the online community of ESV users:
We should be careful not to pride ourselves in a translation however. Even so, we need to commend good translations that will make us see and savor Christ better and that build community in such a way that believers can understand the language of each other and most importantly God. If I would commend the ESV translators on one thing, it would be that, namely, the community that is being built, especially online, using the ESV. I rejoice when I hear another brother or sister using it, because it’s in the words that I read most often.
We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating that we appreciate everyone online (and offline) who reads the ESV.
August 18th, 2008
Here are recent posts from the ESV Study Bible Blog:
August 15th, 2008
Olive Tree Bible Software has released BibleReader for iPhone. The ESV is available for $24.99.
Download it from the App Store on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Rick at This Lamp reviews BibleReader.
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