Archive for May 2007

Jeff Fuller at The Reformed Evangelist writes:
Paperback Study Bibles are a rare find, in the ESV they don’t exist. Yet through a generous donation from Ligonier Ministries combined with the genius of their Creative Department, a box of the very first custom-made paperback Reformation Study Bibles arrived at my home.
Why are these paperbacks so special? […]

Julie Clawson at onehandclapping posts a long paper that describes how the physical shape of the Bible has changed over time, starting with scrolls and later moving to the current book (codex) form.
She talks in particular how the shift from scrolls to books helped cement the understanding of the Bible as a unified whole and […]

The ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament is a finalist for the 2007 ECPA Christian Book Award in the “Bibles” category. The other finalists in this category are the Archaeological Study Bible, the Family Foundations Study Bible, the New Women’s Devotional Bible, and the TNIV Study Bible.
See the complete list of finalists in all […]

From Crossway’s press release:
The ESV Outreach New Testament was awarded the Gold Book Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) at the 2007 ECPA Management Conference on Sunday, April 29th. More than 500,000 ESV Outreach New Testaments have been sold since its publication in September 2006.
The ESV Outreach New Testament has been the cornerstone […]

“Der Bettler” at Hoc Est Verum writes about the mishmash that often comes out when quoting a Bible verse from memory, a result of using and memorizing several different Bible translations over his life. He concludes:
My point is this: If you are in any position that requires you to read, recite, study, or teach […]

Rick at This Lamp has a long, positive review of the ESV Single Column Reference Bible. It’s hard to pick out a paragraph to excerpt, but here’s one where he talks about the advantages of the verse-by-verse instead of a paragraph layout for this edition:
What may seem at first to be an odd choice […]

Logos has released a new version of their free BibleWidget for the Mac, which now includes the ESV. Use the BibleWidget to look up any verse in the Bible without starting a program or visiting a website.

Timothy Larsen at Theolog discusses how critics object to different parts of the Bible in different historical periods. The Victorians, not surprisingly, had problems with the pre-clothing era in the Garden of Eden, as well as the Bible’s seeming softness on the dangers of alcohol:
Here, for example, is an argument from a secularist who debated […]

“Brother Maynard” at Subversive Influence details his thought process for buying a new Bible. What particularly struck us is this paragraph:
Once when he was giving a concert, I heard Michael Card say that he was reading his daughter’s Bible, which he explained that he bought each of his kids a Bible and read it […]

Dr. Robert Lowery shares how he tries to “read through the New Testament once a month and the Old Testament as least twice a year:”
I read from a variety of translations, but usually I read the NIV six to eight months of the year and then the remaining months I read from a variety of […]