Archive for July 2006

We’ve released twenty 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 Dennis Rainey, Dr. Henry Cloud, Mike from MercyMe, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

In honor of Tim Challies’ 1,000th consecutive day of blogging, we offer the following button he created for you to use on your site:

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Xpound.org applies social tagging to the Bible.
Browse by passage:

Or by tag:

Josh, xpound’s creator, has also written a couple of blog entries of interest: ESV: A Bible for the Developers and Using OpenSearch Results: A Tutorial. Both posts explain how he uses the ESV web tools to obtain the Bible text for the site.

We’ve added a new endorsement to the Endorsements page:

“As I read and reread the entire ESV, I continue to be very impressed. It is my constant companion as I travel across Russia and the world. When I am with English speaking audiences, the ESV is the version from which I preach and teach.”
Roy Christians
National Director, [...]

The Wonders for Oyarsa blog has been blogging through the ESV Bible, inspired in part by the Slate project that approaches the Bible from a more secular perspective.
In the latest post (on Genesis 32-36), the blogger writes in part:
In a mystical and mysterious turn of events, Jacob has not been wrestling with a mere [...]

We’ve discovered four blog reviews of the ESV Journaling Bible. Here are some excerpts.
First, Reid at Power of Change writes:
So far, I have been scribbling running verse by verse commentary in my two inch ruled margins. Others may want to journal prayers, thoughts about life, notes to God, etc. Most importantly, this may just help [...]

Chong Choe at Wisdom and Devotion blogs about her experience learning Greek and Hebrew. In part:
No matter how good the translation, there were many times when I felt that the English translation was awkward or incomplete—as if there was more to the message than the language revealed. This is why I started reading other versions [...]

Christian recording artist Vicky Beeching shares how to deepen your understanding of the Bible and apply it to your life.
Her main points:

Find a Bible translation you feel comfortable with. “The old King James language is sometimes hard to understand, so thankfully there are a plethora of great translations available! My current favorite is the English [...]

Mark at Every Thought, Every Word talks about the Hebrew word beulah in Isaiah 62:4.
The KJV transliterates the first instance of the word and translates the second:
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD [...]

Crossway has posted a long article (4,000 words) about how they moved from chapter-length RealAudio streams to verse-level Flash audio and MP3s at the ESV Online Edition. It’s pretty technical and includes source code.
We hit the high points below.

They originally divided each chapter’s audio into verses (“versified”) the New Testament using Audacity, which took 240 [...]