Archive for February 2008

You won’t find today, February 29, on most Bible reading plans. If you’re reading through the Bible in a year, what are you going to read today?
Some people break up the readings—they read half of the reading for March 1 on February 29, and they read the other half on the following day. If you’re […]

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 Mike Yankoski, Cheri Fuller, one about William Wilberforce, and others.
Listen to all the spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Duncan Forbes at his eponymous blog has been writing recently about how he uses the Greek New Testament for devotions:
For the last 2 years I’ve been using Greek primarily for exegesis for sermons. In the last month however, I tried something new, and started using a Greek text for my devotions. I knew someone years […]

The 180 Youth Ministry blog has a top-ten list of why the ESV TruGrip Bible is their favorite Bible. But even more interesting is the story they share:
So I was talking to my friend this week who gave me the Bible and telling him how excited I am about it, when he said a […]

The Logos Bible Software Blog posted last week about whether the “changes in names, or the orders of names, that you see in the New Testament” are insignificant stylistic variation or are important. Steve Runge writes of the story of Jesus raising Lazarus (John 11:1-5):
In v. 3, Mary and Martha are referred to collectively as […]

ESV Gift and Award Bibles are now available. These inexpensive Bibles are designed to give away on special occasions—graduations, baptisms, and the like. You can also buy these Bibles in packs of 24 for half-off the retail price.

The ESV Deluxe Compact TruTone Bible will be available in four styles later this spring. The Bible is similar to the current Compact TruTone Bibles but features:

A larger font (6.55 points vs. 6.2 points for the existing Compact TruTone)
A different font (Lexicon No. 1 vs. Berkeley)
A slightly larger physical size (3.875″ × 6″ vs. […]

The blogger at Gucci Little Piggy writes how “Bible study done well takes work:”
It is usually measured in long hours not short minutes. It forces us to be an active thinking instead of a passive recipient. It demands concentration, and sometimes that’s a tall order for generations who’ve been raised by ADD television programming which […]

Doug Guest-blogger Jason Button at Gazing at Glory writes about the “Prayer Psalms” in the Bible, identifying the various genres and elements of these psalms. Of the Literary Study Bible, he writes:
I would highly recommend the ESV Literary Study Bible to you for many reasons and here specifically. Before each psalm is an introductory paragraph […]

Tim at Challies.com writes about how he enjoys the metaphors and other literary features of more-literal Bible translations:
Examples multiply as I read the Bible. I love these little literary constructs and love to think about them. They offer more than meets the eye and there is reward in doing the work of understanding them. I’ve […]