Archive for December 2006

Crossway has made available online two new one-year Bible reading plans:

Daily Reading Bible. (RSS.) This plan follows the one found in the ESV Daily Reading Bible. Each day has one Old Testament reading, one New Testament reading, and one reading from the Psalms. You read the Old Testament once and the New Testament and Psalms […]

How do you choose a Bible reading plan for the upcoming year? Aesthetically? In this post we graph a few different reading plans so you can see visually how they differ from one another.
Through the Bible
The Through the Bible reading plan is about as simple as they come: you read one passage each day from […]

We’ve released six new Christmas-themed 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 Fernando Ortega , Chris Plekenpol, one about St. Nicholas, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Tucked into our announcement a couple of weeks ago about the Book of Common Prayer Daily Office Lectionary being available was mention of a new API call: getReadingPlanInfo.
This blog entry gives a brief overview of how to use the method. It’s pretty self-explanatory (we hope). The method gives you information about a reading plan’s readings […]

We’re not sure why a rash of articles analyzing the U.S. Bible market has appeared recently in secular publications. Now it’s The New Yorker’s turn. As you’d expect from The New Yorker, the article is long, thorough, and well-written.
Some highlights:
The distinction points to one way in which publishers sell multiple copies of the Bible to […]

Wayne Grudem mentions a few previously undisclosed tidbits about the forthcoming ESV Study Bible in an interview with Adrian Warnock:
Currently I am working as general editor for the ESV Study Bible (Crossway), which we hope will be published in late 2008. We have 84 different specialists writing on various parts of the Bible and also […]

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had an article about the U.S. Bible market. Some highlights:
“For a long time the Bible was just the Bible,” noted Kevin O’Brien, director of Bibles at Tyndale House. “You put it out there and people bought it. They didn’t ask about the options, because there weren’t any options. But now, especially […]

The indefatigable Glenn at Development on a Shoestring has created a plugin for Windows Live Writer that fetches verses from the ESV web service and inserts them into your blog post.

Windows Live Writer is a Windows program that lets you blog using a WYSIWYG interface (like Microsoft Word)—in other words, you don’t need any technical […]

Tony at The Shepherd’s Scrapbook has created a blank ESV Reverse Interlinear New Testament—in other words, every other page is blank and ready for writing on:

Tony explains in great detail how he produced the Bible starting from a bound Reverse Interlinear, with instructions on how you can make your own:

Intro
Cut, Rip, Clamp, Saw
Slicing and Stuffing
Punching […]