Archive for January 2007

Last week’s post on New Testament social networks appeared on the front page of news site Digg over the weekend, giving us a month’s worth of traffic in a few days’ time. We want to reflect on what happens when a Christian blog experiences a fleeting burst of popularity from non-Christian or even anti-Christian sources.
Unlike […]

Here are links to everyone we could find who’s blogged a review of the ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament:

Nick-Nacks, Notes, and Notions (Oct 25, 2006). “I highly suggest this New Testament—It is logical and useful, even for those of us who will spend a lifetime struggling with anything other than English!”
joethorn.net (Oct 25, 2006). […]

The recent launch of Many Eyes, a data visualization site, lets us make a start toward mapping New Testament social networks:

The live visualization at Many Eyes lets you pan and zoom around to your heart’s content. (You need the Java plugin for your browser to be able to interact with the visualization.)
The data set behind […]

WordPress 2.1 came out Monday, and it’s now powering this blog—no more WordPress 1.5.x for us. Upgrading went without a hitch and took all of four minutes. Sorry for any duplicate posts you see in your feed reader.
Trackbacks Now Closed
We’re also changing how we handle trackbacks: they’re now closed for all posts.
Why are we eliminating […]

We’ve released six 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 Melody Carlson, Jeremy Redmon from Big Daddy Weave, one about Jonathan Edwards, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

A new edition of the ESV Journaling Bible is now available. It features a terra cotta/sage cover and an elastic strap. Like other editions of the Journaling Bible, it has nearly two-inch margins for note-taking.

The blogger at To Tell You the Truth provides some tips for reading and understanding Scripture. Selected quotes:

Scripture as Story: “I read Scripture as a grand story, the story of Redemption. When all of Scripture is read in this way, we will not see the individual stories as moral lessons or as mere examples of […]

Romilayu at Atticus Is Dead asks whether we should translate Isaiah 9:6 as “Wonderful Counselor” or “Wonderful, Counselor” (with a comma):
Some translations (KJV, NKJV, WEB, RSV, ASV) call Christ both wonderful and a counselor, but not a “wonderful counselor” while other translations (NIV, NASB, ESV[, NLT, HCSB]) call him indeed a “Wonderful Counselor.” Even the […]

Hank at Think Wink proposes that churches should teach their members Greek in Sunday School:
However, what if the churches over the country began to teach a basic understand of Greek and Hebrew and could point people in the direction of some free resources that can help the readers get into the original language? This is […]

Mark Driscoll explains why he’s now preaching from the ESV.
The conclusion contains some wisdom about avoiding division over Bible translations:
In the history of Mars Hill Church we have never divided over the issue of Bible translations. We have always maintained that various translations have various strengths and weaknesses and that the student of Scripture benefits […]