Archive for July 2005

We’ve released a new video geared toward churches that talks about why we think they should adopt the ESV as their primary Bible. Even if you’re not considering the ESV for your church, you’ll still find that the video shares insight into the history and purpose of the ESV.
Watch or read a transcript now.

Michael Jones shares ScriptureMenu.com, which arranges passages of Scripture topically in the style of a restaurant menu. It uses the ESV Web Service to display those passages. He also has a page that discusses why he uses the ESV.

Tessa from Cool, but weird… but cool shares her dilemma:
So here I am in a quandary. I love old books. I love new books. I love buying Bibles. And I was about to start work this morning (honest) when I decided to briefly visit the ESV Bible homepage. I had a vague notion of looking [...]

One question that arises from time to time is, “What does a reverse interlinear Bible look like?”
A traditional interlinear has the original language as the top line with English words lined up with the original. A reverse interlinear has English as the top line with the original words lined up with the English.
Here are two [...]

The searchable ESV text is now available at Crosswalk.com.

Sometimes we get ideas that are impractical to implement on the ESV website but that might enhance other websites or help people learn more about the Bible.
One such idea is this: why not overlay a Google Map with Bible map data?
Here’s an interactive map we made showing certain cities from the life and ministry of [...]

In the spirit of openness and to clarify any questions about who was responsible for what, we present the following timeline of the recently concluded contest. We also want to share why we conducted the contest the way we did.

April 5, 2005. We know that the Translation Oversight Committee (TOC) meeting is forthcoming and that [...]

The following people have won a free ESV Bible in this contest. We’ve emailed them; if you’re one of these people and didn’t get an email, please contact us at blog@esv.org.

Jeremy Pierce
James Coleman
“Sven”
Eric Williams
Glenn Piper
John H

We randomly picked the winners from the approximately 600 eligible comments and trackbacks. Originally we only planned to give away [...]

To what extent was the translation of the ESV Bible one consciously assisted by prayer and the Holy Spirit? How conscious of his work in illuminating and guiding our understanding of God’s Word were you in working together on this translation?
Watch J.I. Packer respond (Windows Media format).
I may say, we did make worship basic to [...]

In light of yesterday’s tragedy, Adrian, who lives in London, will not be posting the final answer in the “Ask the Translators” sequence today.
We will resume on Monday, July 11, 2005.