Archive for December 2005

Crossway has announced the next typesetting of the ESV that they’re producing: an Outreach edition. They wanted a Bible inexpensive enough to give away, which means they needed one with fewer than 1,000 pages: the Outreach edition has 928 pages and retails for $5.99. Crossway expects it to be available in January 2006.
The typesetting uses […]

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 features Bebo Norman, Bryan Duncan, Kent Bottenfield, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.esv.org/radio/bfl.

In July we talked about creating a Google Map with biblical place names marked.
Catman66 has now created a Google Earth overlay of Paul’s first missionary journey. (You’ll need the free Google Earth program to see the map.)

Via Birchandconnie.org.

Running a Bible search website means that we collect a lot of raw data about what verses people are looking at. A few months ago we crunched the numbers and came up with some stats that you might find interesting.
Searches for specific passages comprise about 90% of queries on the ESV site; word searches account […]

Joel has created a Holiday Guide to Bible Helps and References (also Part 1 and Part 3).
He mentions two features of the Classic Reference edition of the ESV that we don’t often highlight but that make it particularly suitable for in-depth Bible study:

Cross-references. Over 76,000 of them illuminate the interrelatedness of Scripture in ways you […]

We mentioned Monday that we’re planning to make Max McLean’s reading of the complete ESV Bible available for streaming through the ESV Online Edition.
We’d like your advice: in what format should we make the audio available?
Currently you can only hear Marquis Laughlin read the New Testament. We piggyback off Bible Gateway’s RealAudio files and have […]

You can now buy a downloadable MP3 audio version of the ESV for $49.95 from Crossway. You can also buy just the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms/Proverbs, or the Gospels for less.
Visit Crossway’s site for more information.
Max McLean reads the audio. Listen to samples: Genesis 1, Exodus 20, Psalm 23, Matthew 5, John 1.
We’re working […]

Brian D. Russell has written two medium-length blog entries that we think are worth your time.
First, he talks about Bible translation in his article Moving through the Maze: Understanding Bible Translation. He says of formal equivalence translations (an essentially literal translation like the ESV tends toward this pole):
A formal equivalence translation (better known as a […]