Archive for October 2007

Update 9:25 AM EDT: Ligonier has run out of in-stock study Bibles. They will continue to honor the $15.17 price for the rest of the day, but you won’t get your Bible until February 2008.
Today only (October 31, 2007), Ligonier Ministries is selling the hardback ESV Reformation Study Bible for $15.17. Its regular price is [...]

Here are links to all the blogs we could find that have substantively discussed the new ESV Literary Study Bible. The newest posts are at the top. We appreciate everyone who took the time to write about it; more importantly, we hope it’s helping you learn more about the Bible.
Word Alone. “Its commentary takes a [...]

We’ve released ten 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 Chris Tiegreen, Matt McPherson, one about George Herbert, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Jesus at Soul DeSaenz gives advice on using archival-quality pens to write in your Bible:
The biggest reason for using an archival quality pen is the ink, or rather the pigment. These pens use pigment ink rather [than] dye ink. Pigment ink is chemically stable, its pH is neutral, it is non-acidic and non-alkaline so it [...]

Billy at Joy in the Journey shares, as a pastor, what he places on the inside flap of his Bibles: ten counsels from the book The Supremacy of God in Preaching by John Piper (based on Jonathan Edwards’s preaching):
After my first reading of this book, the final “10” counsels revolutionized my philosophy of preaching. I [...]

Andy at Coded for Worship explains how to use the ESV daily verse as your screensaver in Windows XP. He uses the free program rsssaver and the Daily Verse RSS feed. (As Andy points out, any other RSS feed would work, too.)

The Dallas Morning News recently carried an article titled Christian Consumer’s Guide to the Bible(s) that discusses Bible translation theory. As a popular article, it necessarily glosses over some of the intricacies involved in the translation process, but it does mention the ESV a couple of times.
The conclusion:
Having a diversity of translations is beneficial to [...]

Crossway author J. Mark Bertrand has a new blog about Bible Design and Binding. If you’re interested in craftsmanship of physical Bibles, this blog is for you.
A few of his recent posts:

Bibles for Reading, or Reference?
Pocket New Testaments
Binding Types: Glued, Sewn, or Hybrid?

Mark’s book, Rethinking Worldview, just came out.

The ESV Web Service now has its own domain: www.esvapi.org. The names of the API calls have changed slightly to make them more RESTian. See the Upgrade Guide for a list of key differences.
(The ESV website and text will continue at the same URLs. Only the Web Service is changing.)
The main advantage of moving to [...]

Scott at paradoxica has created three applications using the ESV API: an iPhone site, a Mac Dashboard widget, and an AIR application that all let you browse the ESV text. Scott mentions that all three use WebKit as their HTML renderer, so it was easy to write code that works well on different platforms.
Here’s a [...]