Archive for April 2008

We’ve released ten final 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 Jill Parr, Shannon Ethridge, one about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and others.
Listen to all 296 spots at www.bibleforlife.org.

Jeff at Wide Open talks about why he’s been studying and preaching from the ESV:
These are just a few of the reasons I choose to preach from the ESV. If you attend Living Hope Church, do you need to rush out and purchase another Bible? Absolutely not. Keep reading the Bible you love. But if [...]

Nan at Life Is Like a Lunchbox has an overview of free audiobooks on the web, including the ESV:
And last but absolutely not least, what would this list be without a reference to the greatest and most influential classic of them all which can be read and listened to in its entirety for free online? [...]

OpenBible.info has created a linguistic “map” of the ESV. It looks like this:

The blue lines show quotes from people, and the light red lines show quotes from God and Jesus. The full-size graphic reduces words to a single pixel and uses lines to indicate sentence length.
A closeup of the book of Joshua looks like this:

The [...]

Mark at Bible Design and Binding recently wrote about reading the ESV on his iPhone. A twist: he keeps his iPhone in a leather case so it kind of looks like a Bible:

Mark writes:
When you consider how much I like small Bibles, it’s no surprise that the iPhone-as-Bible appeals to me. It’s the Bible I [...]

The blogger at The Journey of Life writes about how he got his Bible reading back on track, inspired by the Literary Study Bible:
I had also obtained a copy of the Literary Study Bible, which is also a godsend. I had never been able to really process the Bible in terms of entire books as [...]

In the 48 hours since launching the ESV Study Bible website, we’ve been collecting responses from around the web. We’re glad that you’re excited about the ESV Study Bible—we’re excited, too. Keep in mind that the Bible is God’s sacred Word to us. The ESV Study Bible team is working for God’s glory, not ours; [...]

Jeff at Scripture Zealot provides a good rundown of Crossway’s ESV offerings on the web, from audio to RSS, and even some print Bibles in-between.

Learn all about the ESV Study Bible, coming October 2008.

Kevin at New Epistles has written a six-part series on his search for a formal-equivalence Bible translation. He focuses on the NASB, ESV, and NRSV, but he brings in other translations along the way, too.

Introduction
Isaiah 53:5
John 18
John 19
Acts 2
Conclusion