Archive for January 2006

Listen to Philip Graham Ryken explain why Tenth Presbyterian Church uses the ESV (3MB MP3). He delivered this talk at the ESV Breakfast at ETS in November 2005.
Below is the raw transcript.
We have in living memory used three church Bibles in the history of Tenth Church. One of course is the King James Version, which [...]

You can now hear Max McLean read passages from the entire ESV at the ESV Online Edition. (The current audio, read by Marquis Laughlin, only covers the New Testament.)
Here’s how to hear it:

Go to the Options page at the ESV Online Edition.
Choose either “Flash (read by Max McLean)” or “MP3 (read by Max McLean)” in [...]

As of January 30, Justin Taylor will be joining Crossway as Managing Editor for the ESV Study Bible, which is coming out in late 2008 or 2009. Prior to joining Crossway, Justin was the Director of Theology and Executive Editor at Desiring God.
His primary duties at Crossway will involve overseeing all the work that goes [...]

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 Russ Lee, Melody Carlson, Ron DiCianni, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.esv.org/radio/bfl.

The ESV Outreach Edition (previously blogged here) is now available from Crossway. This edition currently retails for $5.99 and is designed for churches to give away. You can also buy a 28-pack for $83.86, or just under $3.00 per Bible.
See a sample of the interior (81KB PDF).

Crossway is changing how it encodes HTML in the ESV RSS feeds. To about 99.9% of you, this change will make no difference. You only need to continue reading if you process the RSS feeds programmatically or enjoy highly technical posts.
When Crossway started their RSS feeds in 2003, heated debates were going on about how [...]

Crossway has posted the 2006 ESV Catalog (5 MB PDF), showing all the available and forthcoming ESV editions they publish.
The catalog has lots of beautiful photos of Bibles. Here are few of our favorites:

Update January 18, 2006: Fixed an image caption.

Today (January 12, 2006) is the last day of the free podcast sample for people who subscribe to one of the “through the Bible in a year” ESV RSS feeds.
A three-year subscription costs $19.95, and you can subscribe to any or all of the available feeds. You’ll get a fifteen-minute-long (or so) MP3 delivered to [...]

The new ESV Outreach Edition has 928 pages, while the ESV Classic Thinline setting has 1106 pages. Why the difference?
Crossway wanted to sell the Outreach Edition inexpensively, which meant reducing the page count without sacrificing readability. They used a variety of techniques to cut the number of pages, most prominently by changing the font used, [...]

Last week we mentioned the various RSS feeds the ESV site makes available. We should’ve also talked about physical versions of books and Bibles published by Crossway to help you in your devotions. Here are some devotions from Crossway:

The One Year® Bible (ESV) in hardcover and paperback.
Daily Light on the Daily Path (ESV).
Morning and Evening [...]