Archive for April 2005

Last week marked the end of our first Bible giveaway, and we want to share a little bit of our experience.
The idea came from Justin Taylor, who suggested in an email that we give away Bibles to jumpstart interest in our new blog.
We debated which Bible to give away; the Life Discovery Edition, a $9.99 [...]

Coming this fall from Crossway: two ESV TruGlo™ editions, whose covers glow in the dark. The text and dimensions are the same as the Compact Thinline and Compact TruTone editions. TruGlo details are available on the Crossway website. They cost $19.99 each.
Here are images of the two covers: the Black Rubber, Flame Design and the [...]

You can now search the ESV Bible from A9.com.
A9.com (part of Amazon.com) recently unveiled its OpenSearch initiative to allow websites to syndicate their search results.
For certain types of searches, specialized search engines return better results than general search engines. For example, a search for Habakkuk 3 returns less than ideal results compared to the [...]

While we can’t answer every translation question that comes to us, we do get a few questions often enough that they demand replies. Here is one such question.
Why did you use the UBS and Nestle Aland Greek texts in translating the ESV?
You can find the official answer on the Manuscripts Used in Translating the ESV [...]

Update at 11:30 AM EDT (April 20): We don’t have any free Bibles left. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Do you:

Have a blog with a blogroll?
Live in the US, Canada, the UK, or Australia?
Want a free ESV Bible?

We’re giving away a free ESV Bible to the first 100 people who add the ESV Bible Blog to [...]

Adrian Warnock, a blogger whom we linked to earlier, in three posts finds and links to much of the online conversation going on right now about the ESV. We’ll be linking soon to some of the pages he mentions, but if you don’t want to wait for us, head over to Adrian’s blog for details.

A [...]

Adrian Warnock, a preacher/blogger from the UK, writes about the ESV:
It is my primary translation and the one I read from almost every time I preach….
The ESV is as close to being word for word as it is reasonable to be without compromising on both readability and the accurate conveying of the sense of the [...]

Listen to why John Piper uses the ESV Bible.
I’m using–when I’m not reading the Greek and Hebrew, which I try to do in preparation for messages and in my study–I’m reading the English Standard Version. It’s a newer version–about five years old now. And I’m reading it–and will, I think, read it for the rest [...]

Pastor Tim Theule is having an open discussion about whether to buy pew Bibles for his church to give away.
I prefer an English translation that is as close to the original Greek as possible. I prefer a “word for word” translation. Why? Do the individual words matter that much?
Jesus said. . . Do not think [...]

Everyone has a blog these days, whether you’re a politician, a journalist, a techie, or just someone who loves your cat.
So we thought, “Why not one for the ESV Bible?” We, the staff of the Standard Bible Society, will use this blog to discuss:

The latest news about the ESV.
Upcoming editions of the ESV (including everyone’s [...]