Archive for November 2007

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 Bebo Norman, Jeni Varnadeau, one about Brother Lawrence, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Gary at Resurgence interviews Leland Ryken, a member of the ESV translation team and co-editor of the recent ESV Literary Study Bible. Their topics range from the Pacific Northwest to translation philosophy. One exchange:
GS: Lastly, for Christians who care about the Bible and want to reach people around them with the gospel, what are some [...]

Richard at the Puritan Board forum writes about using a pew Bible as his primary Bible:
On some past thread regarding the sturdiness (or lack thereof) of American-made Bibles, a couple of folks said that they own personal copies of pew Bibles, since they are built to last. They also noted that pew Bibles have [...]

Justin at Buzzard Blog talks about spending time with Dan Wallace of Dallas Theological Seminary:
I had the privilege of spending a good portion of my day with Dan Wallace, professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary, director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, Senior New Testament Editor of the [...]

Todd at Faith By Hearing blogged a bit about commuting through the Bible for eight weeks by listening to the ESV read by Max McLean:
A unique feature of listening through an audio Bible is that you can’t skip over things when it becomes repetitious or ‘dull’. Listening can also bring a unique perspective. I [...]

Gary at A Friend of Christ blogs about coming across an ESV Single-Column Reference Bible in a Christian bookstore:
I took it out of the box. Black, soft, flexible, very nice! I could hardly believe it wasn’t real calfskin! They are really starting to work wonders with synthetic materials nowadays!…
The text sits in the center of [...]

Scott at Wisdom of the Pages reviews the ESV Children’s Bible. In part:
The boys were so excited about the new Bibles they carried them around everywhere they went. The child-friendly aspects were not lost on the boys. They turn to passages more efficiently now. The illustrations captured their imaginations, and prompted them to much reading. [...]

According to DMC News, Philip Graham Ryken will be giving a brief talk about the Literary Study Bible at the Rittenhouse Barnes & Noble in Philadelphia tomorrow, November 13, 2007, at 7 P.M.

Amazon recently introduced a feature on its site called “Text Stats,” which lets you see things like the grade level, word count, and other statistics for books in its “Search Inside the Book” (SITB) program.
Here are a several Bible translations plotted by the total number of words in the translation compared to the number of [...]

Dan at No Jive explains why he uses the ESV:
So, I’m currently in the book of Isaiah in my second trip through the ESV (I’m a strong believer in reading the Bible from beginning to end — over and over again — but that’s a topic for another post). I love the translation — it’s [...]