Archive for November 2005

Rob Bushway has announced that the ESV is available free for the Tablet PC if you have GoBinder or PlanPlus.
Tablet PCs run a form of Windows and let you write directly on the screen, presenting a more natural form of notetaking for many people. It’s like having an erasable wide-margin Bible.
Download the ESV from tabletbible.com.
Rob [...]

Yesterday we interviewed Mark Altrogge, a pastor who helps people memorize the Bible through song. Today we present another of his songs.
Listen to Psalm 46:1-3 (mp3).

Today we have an interview with Mark Altrogge, a pastor in Indiana, Pa., who sets Bible verses to music to help people memorize Scripture.
Listen to Jude 24-25 (mp3) while you read the interview. We’ve been humming it all morning.
You can buy Mark’s six CDs at his website, forevergrateful.com. They run $9.99 each, and you can [...]

David Gibson wrote in Friday’s Wall Street Journal about the recent publication of the 100-Minute Bible, a condensation of the Scriptures that you can read in about 100 minutes.
So is the end nigh? Perhaps not. Indeed, it could be argued that Christianity has been keeping it simple since Jesus stymied the Pharisees by synthesizing Jewish [...]

We’ve released twelve new spots in the “Bible for Life” radio campaign. Each one-minute spot has someone reading a passage from the ESV and meditating on it.
This month’s spots feature several authors (links point to mp3s): Robin Jones Gunn, Mike Yankoski, Jack Graham, Haley DiMarco, and others. There’s even one about American revolutionary Patrick Henry.
Listen [...]

The Chicago Book Clinic gives out awards every year to “recognize excellence in the art and craft of book and multimedia production and design” in several categories (pdf).
The ESV Weathered Metal Compact BattleZone® picked up this year’s award in the “Liturgical” category. The ESV Compact TruGrips took honorable mention in the same category.

In our last post, we talked about using the ESV in liturgical settings. We briefly mentioned one thread that deserves fuller treatment: what’s the difference between “obsolete” language and “archaic” language in Bible translations?
We turn, as we did last time, to a document produced by the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. We’re not necessarily endorsing their view [...]

Rich considers the qualities of a liturgical translation in a recent post on his blog. We’ll summarize his post first and then respond.
He says that many modern Protestant churches have not retained
the liturgical form of worship for the past 1,500 years…. The historic liturgical form included spoken/sung responses (Kyrie, Alleluia, Gloria Patri, Te Deum, Nunc [...]

Garry writes to tell us that he’s created a Dashboard widget for Mac OS X to display the daily verse from the ESV Verse of the Day RSS feed.
Download it here.

Crossway is about to publish has published Translating Truth: The Case for Essentially Literal Bible Translation, a book that discusses the merits of essentially literal translations like the ESV. (All the authors contributed to the ESV.)
Crossway lets you browse parts of the book on their site. Use the links below to read the chapters that [...]