Archive for April 2007

The Logos Bible Software Blog points to an article about how the rise of smoking in China drives up the cost of Bible paper.
There are at least two good reasons to stop smoking. Number one: It may damage your health. Number two: It raises the production costs for Bibles, ASSIST News Service reports. The Chinese [...]

Christopher at TaylorWest has been blogging about paraphrases of the Bible (spoiler: he finds them helpful). Tucked in at the end of one of his posts are the reasons he reads the ESV with his kids and how he tries to (not) interpret the text for them:
When we read the Bible together at night with [...]

Tired of using your iPod for audio and video? Wish you could read the Bible on a 3-inch screen? Then podBible is for you. It has the complete ESV New Testament in a set of files browsable on your iPod—for free.

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 Kristyn Getty, Leslie Montgomery, one about John Newton, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Travis at secondmouse has created a verse-of-the-day feed with a twist. Every day Travis takes the ESV daily verse and turns it into an image formatted for an iPod. For example:

Travis creates the images in Photoshop each day. He says that “making the images by hand also ‘forces’ me to read the new daily [...]

The Pocket Testament League has published an ESV Gospel of John. Here’s what they say about it:

Stanley Fish recently wrote in the New York Times (now behind a paywall) about teaching the Bible as literature in public schools:
Stephen Prothero of Boston University… describes the project and the claim attached to it succinctly: “The academic study of religion provides a kind of middle space…. It takes the biblical truth claims seriously and [...]

The ESV Literary Study Bible approaches the Bible as literature and shows how the application of literary tools of analysis helps tremendously in reading and understanding the Bible. Readers are introduced to the literary features of each book of the Bible and to each section within each book.
While traditional Bibles are reference books, this is [...]

The ESV Large-Print Pew and Worship Bible will be available in three colors (red, blue, and black to match the current Pew and Worship Bibles) in summer 2007.
This Bible uses the typesetting from the ESV Large Print Bible. It is 6.625″ x 9.5″ and features 12.75-point type. Its durable hardcover format, high-quality Bible paper, and [...]

The ESV Wide Margin Reference Bible will be available in Black TruTone and Portfolio Design TruTone (both for $54.99) covers in late summer 2007.
This Bible features 1.25-inch margins throughout for readers to record their observations, reflections, prayers, and notes. It is 6″ x 9″ and has 8.8-point type.

This Bible is also a complete reference Bible, [...]