Archive for August 2007

The people behind the Many Eyes data visualization site recently pointed us to a minute-long YouTube video of someone playing around with the New Testament social network data we posted in January. The person clicks around the visualization. and makes some observations about how hard it is to find someone without a connection to Jesus.
Thanks, [...]

William at Weedon’s Blog shares his thoughts on the ESV in a liturgical (Lutheran) context:
We’ve been using the Lectionary for LSB [Lutheran Service Book] now for over a year, and this employs the ESV text. I confess that there are times I still stumble. My old ear is trained to KJV and I suspect it [...]

Zachary Howe has developed a Facebook application that uses the ESV API to show a daily Bible verse on your Facebook page. (You need to have joined Facebook for that link to work.)

One of the great things about having an API is that it unleashes developers’ creativity. We considered creating an ESV application when Facebook [...]

Last month Crossway published a press release that mentions the iPhone ESV site you learned about here first. It also discussed a few statistics:
The main ESV Bible web site receives over 100,000 unique visitors a month, up from 1,000 visitors a month when it launched in July 2002. Over the past five years, Crossway has [...]

Today we have an interview with Tim Kimberley, one of the people behind BibleMap.org. BibleMap.org is an ESV/Google Maps mashup we previously wrote about in January. Keep up with the latest developments at the BibleMap.org Blog. Thanks to Tim for letting us interview him!
1. What’s the purpose of the BibleMap.org? Where did you get the [...]

We’ve released eight 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 John Ensor, Nick Gonzales from Salvador, one about Charles Finney, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Crossway will publish a Spanish (RVR60)-ESV Parallel Bible early next year:
Spanish and English are two of the five most-spoken languages in the world. This new edition of the ESV honors the diversity and relevance of God’s Word in a way that is ideal for not only native speakers of either language but also bilingual readers. [...]

Two-column, paragraph format. Words of Christ in red. Type size: 7 points. Available in black or burgundy. Introducing the ESV Gift and Award Bible.
Below is a sample page. Also download a sample PDF (113K).

Crossway describes the Gift and Award Bible this way:
Special occasions call for a special Bible to celebrate them. The affordably priced Gift [...]

Single column, paragraph format. Words of Christ in black. Size: 5″ × 7.25″. Type size: 7.4 points. Outside margin: 0.36″. Cross-references on the inside margin. Meet the ESV Personal Size Reference Bible.
Below is what a page looks like. Also download a sample PDF (320K).

This Bible comes in four editions to start: black genuine leather, black [...]

Here’s a brief audio clip (460KB MP3) of what J. I. Packer said about the ESV at a banquet hosted by Crossway at the International Christian Retail Show in 2006. A transcript:
I was privileged to act as General Editor of the English Standard Version, and now that I look back on what we did in [...]