Archive for October 2006

Jason at Occupied with the Word has written a series of posts about audio Bibles. He concludes (with some caveats) that listening to an audio Bible provides a helpful supplement to studying the written text.
His main concern is whether listening to an audio Bible instead of reading the Bible results in our paying more attention […]

The Logos Bible Software Blog points to an article titled “What’s Ugaritic Got to Do with Anything?” You might not put Ugaritic (an ancient language related to Hebrew) at the top of your list of things to learn, but Michael Heiser, the article’s author, makes a strong case for it.
We share some of the highlights […]

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 Phil Keaggy, Clay Crosse, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

The ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament is now available.
Download an accompanying Strong’s dictionary (327K pdf, 38 pages), with brief definitions keyed to Strong’s numbers. Print the dictionary and tuck it in the back of your Reverse Interlinear New Testament for easy reference.
Crossway produced the dictionary in conjunction with www.zhubert.com, a hugely useful website if […]

Internet Explorer 7 came out on Wednesday (October 18, 2006). Here’s how to add the ESV to the list of search engines you can use directly from the browser.

Open Internet Explorer 7.
Go to http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/. (Now’s a good time to make use of tabbed browsing if you’re reading this blog in IE7. Right-click the previous link […]

EBible.com, a Web-2.0-ish take on reading the Bible online, launched in early September 2006 with the ESV and several other translations. The site lets you tag verses, read a commentary, and compare passages in parallel translations.

Christ Formed writes about the steadily increasing interest about the ESV:
What has been so very interesting to us is how during this time that we have seen a significant rise in the interest and searches regarding the ESV Bible. Our hits regarding the ESV have steadily increased so that we are experiencing hundreds of hits […]

Dan at Charis shares his journey through the ESV cross references for a particular verse. He starts in Proverbs, heads through 1 Samuel, and ends up in Judges:
A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger….
I’ve had all too many opportunities to witness the negative power of a harsh word, but the […]

Brent talks about how he uses the Classic Thinline and Journaling Bibles (which share the same typesetting and thus match page-for-page) together:
I have always had a major conflict in my reading and studying the Bible—to write or not to write? I have a Bible I like to preach from. I actually have four copies of […]

The blogger at Under the Sky praises the ESV Children’s Bible:
They are ESV Children’s Bibles and are excellent! I never thought those words (about any children’s bible) would cross my lips. These are different altogether though than most because God’s word is not watered down as it is in many other children’s bibles. It is […]