Archive for September 2006

Crossway is looking to hire a Bible typesetter to work out of their offices in Wheaton, Illinois. Email a cover letter and resume to humanresources@gnpcb.org if you’re interested.
General Description of Responsibilities
Responsible for the design and execution of all Bible typesetting projects in coordination with product managers. The ideal candidate is creative, detail-oriented, and has a [...]

The ESV Daily Reading Bible is now available. Here’s Crossway’s description:
The Daily Reading Bible offers maximum flexibility and convenience for reading through the Bible in a year. Each date of the year, along with its respective reading, is listed chronologically in the margins. This guides the reader through a yearlong plan of reading the Old [...]

The press release:
Wheaton, IL—Five years ago, on October 1, 2001, the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible was introduced to the world. Today, the ESV is available in more than one hundred formats, has seen nearly 3 million copies distributed worldwide, and is reaching the world in creative and strategic ways. ESV General Editor J. I. [...]

Steve from Germany sends along the following endorsement, which we think illustrates how people are taking to the ESV around the world:
Munich International Community Church gladly endorses the ESV. We find that the clarity of the language and the transparency to the original text is a great asset for men and women for whom English [...]

Tim at Timblog wrote a WordPress plugin that frequently switches the Bible verse shown on your blog.
The plugin:
appends a random Bible verse on every page in your blog. Here are some of the features:

Verse cache for saving bandwidth and processing time
Fully customizable CSS
Choose verse update frequency
Verse statistics
Valid HTML/XHTML
Random verse fetched from the ESV

We recommend that [...]

BiblicalTraining.org offers over thirty courses you can download for free over the Internet to help you deepen your knowledge of the Bible, theology, and church history.
A number of people involved in the ESV or who are Crossway authors teach courses, including Bill Mounce, Paul House, John Piper, and Bruce Ware.
The site offers three tracks: Biblical [...]

InsertBible is a free plugin that lets you insert the text of the ESV into Microsoft Word documents alongside the original Greek and Hebrew. It gives you a lot of formatting options:

The output looks like:

The only catch is that you have to mail or fax a declaration to CCAT at the University of Pennsylvania (who [...]

Marv at Asphaleia has an extensive post on the names of God in the Bible (and clears up some common misconceptions—“Jehovah Jireh” being the name of a place, not of God). It’s a helpful introduction/review of the Hebrew names for God and how English Bible versions translate them.
Here’s some trivia from the post:
One fun fact: [...]

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 Ron DiCianni, Lisa Welchel, Nick from the band Salvador, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Pastor Chris at VI College Ministry recently recommended a process for memorizing Colossians. He has ten practical tips to help you start (and finish) memorizing.
He recommends photocopying and laminating Colossians so you have something to carry around with you. Then read the book twice to get the big picture and memorize by paragraphs rather than [...]