Archive for March 2006

Aaron in Missouri sends along the following email:
Hello!
I just recently discovered the ESV and love it. I just wanted to share with you a way that I am sharing it with others. I am getting married next week, and in my groomsmen gift bags, I am including an ESV Gospel of John to pass on [...]

Jim Darlack posts about showing Bible cross references graphically using a scatter plot (via Logos Bible Software Blog).
We thought we’d share with you what a few such visualizations would look like.
Old Testament Citations in the New Testament
This chart shows, at a verse level, where the New Testament cites the Old Testament. You can see clusters [...]

We’ve released ten 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 Philip Ryken, Mary Manz Simon, George Huff, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

In keeping with yesterday’s post about the history of Bible printing, today we offer the following history of Bibles with the words of Christ printed in red (i.e., red-letter Bibles).
Red-letter Bibles have become so common that it’s easy to assume they have been around for as long as Bibles have been printed. Not so! [...]

March 22, 1457—549 years ago today—is the usual (if inaccurate) date given for the printing of the first book using movable type: the Gutenberg Bible. We thought we’d share a brief tour of major landmarks in Bible printing, starting with the Gutenberg Bible itself:

Photo Credit: Library of Congress
Learn more about Gutenberg at Wikipedia.
Tyndale New Testament [...]

On Friday we listed direct quotations of the Old Testament from the New Testament. We drew this data from the Classic Thinline edition of the ESV, which has footnotes pointing out such citations. (We found 263 direct quotations in the New Testament.)
Today we give a much more expansive view of Scripture’s interrelatedness, presenting data from [...]

At the Logos Bible Software blog, they’ve been discussing power-law relationships of biblical citations. (In other words, the number of verse citations generally follows a smooth curve. See their post for more background.)
One of the commenters asked for data about how many citations of the Old Testament appear in the New Testament. Here it is:
New [...]

Anthony Esolen at Mere Comments talks about Bible translation:
I don’t have a fully fleshed out theory of translation. If I were pressed, I’d say that the virtue most required of a translator is a kind of reticence—or you might call it a chaste restraint, or linguistic humility. The translator should repeat the words of John [...]

We’ve posted a complete list of radio stations on which you can hear our Bible for Life radio spots. You can also listen to all the spots from the linked page.

Doug at CoffeeSwirls takes our recent post about punctuation and runs with it:
Personally, I would love to have a Bible with only the books to separate the text as well. Especially for the writings of Paul! The translations really butcher his thoughts with the numbering, if you only read from one verse to another. The [...]