Archive for July 2008

Jack Graham, Pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, discusses why he switched to the ESV:
However, 18 months ago I made the decision to choose and use the English Standard Version as my primary reading and preaching/teaching Bible. I made this decision as a result of personal study and careful evaluation. The reason for such change is [...]

The blogger at Tymetraveler’s Tale shares how he came to use the ESV:
Then out of nowhere into my life in 2007 comes the English Standard Version. It had been around for six years, but I had not heard of it. I investigated this “essentially literal” translation and was blown away…. In the past year I [...]

ESV iPhone Applications
Three companies have released native iPhone applications featuring the ESV. You can find them in the App Store if you’ve upgraded your iPhone or iPod Touch to the 2.0 firmware.
AcroBible
First up is AcroBible ESV, which sells for $17.99.

They say:
Experience the Bible in a whole new way with AcroBible for the iPhone and iPod [...]

Justin Taylor interviews Dr. Leen Ritmeyer (part 2), the Archaeological and Architectural Reconstruction Editor for the ESV Study Bible. The interview includes never-before-released drawings from the ESV Study Bible.

Matthew at New Testament Perspectives has a two-part interview (part 1, part 2) with Bob and Bill Mounce, both of whom served on the ESV Translation Oversight Committee. A tidbit:
Bob: Teaming up with Bill on several projects these past half dozen years has brought more personal satisfaction than anything I have ever done professionally. How [...]

Jake at Wiser Time reviews the ESV Children’s Bible:
And it’s all very well-done—adults could stand to read through it as well! It’s great practice for beginning readers, and I would guess that by about 7-8 kids could begin to read & understand a lot of the supplemental stuff by themselves. Most of all, this edition [...]

Richard at Richard Huss’s Weblog explains why he unsubscribed from a daily ESV RSS feed:
I am about to unsubscribe from the feed! Why? Well, some time ago I ended up buying the (real, paper-based) ESV Daily Reading Bible from Amazon. Somehow paper just works better for me for this. But I kept the RSS [...]

We invite you to download the latest sample from the ESV Study Bible: the Introduction to the Psalms, along with the notes for Psalm 1. This pre-release PDF provides you a glimpse of what the ESV Study Bible is designed to deliver—namely, tools and information to help you understand God’s Word more deeply.
In this pre-release [...]

Christopher at Pilgrim’s Pen discovers the ESV Spread the Word campaign; you can get paperback New Testaments for 50 cents each through your local Christian bookstore.
Christopher writes:
So I called my local “Christian” bookstore to see if they had any ESV NT and the lady on the other end of the phone says, “Oh, you heard [...]

Timmy at Provocations and Paintings announces that he’s using the remaining 26 weeks of 2008 to memorize Ephesians. To help, he’s setting up a “memory Moleskine” for himself and providing you the files to help you create your own:
On the left side of the memory moleskine, I am pasting a typed-out version of the text, [...]