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The ESV Student Study Bible

August 20, 2011 — Leave a comment

Crossway has recently released The ESV Student Study Bible for students who want to learn more about the Bible and how it applies to all of life.

Adapted from the ESV Study Bible, this student edition has 12,000 study notes, 900 facts, 120 character profiles, and 15 topical articles. It also features a new glossary of key terms, more than 80 full-color maps and illustrations, an extensive concordance, and 80,000 cross-references.

These and many other features make it one of the most comprehensive, colorful, and content-rich study Bibles available today.

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ESV GreekTools Online

April 14, 2011 — 1 Comment

Check out GreekTools, a new online Bible resource from Crossway.

GreekTools puts the original language of the New Testament into the hands of beginning and advanced students. Intuitive, easy-to-use, and fully customizable, GreekTools is an online application available through the ESVBible.org platform. Now you can do serious work with the Greek text, at home or on the go, no matter your level of proficiency.

You can try it free for 30 days at ESV Online by clicking the Content tab. Or you can purchase it for just $9.99 at crossway.org/GRKTLS.

Features:

  • Complete NA27 Greek text
  • ESV interlinear and reverse-interlinear renderings of the text
  • Complete data set for each word, including lexical data, contextual and morphological information (including parsings), and Strong’s number.
  • Powerful search tool that lets users search by Greek word, transliterated Greek word, Strong’s number, English word, or any combination of those values
  • Complete English and Greek concordances
  • Customizable interface that works seamlessly with other ESVBible.org features, including study resources and notes.

Helpful documentation and instructions are available here.

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Lambskin Edition of the ESV

April 2, 2011 — 1 Comment

It arrived a little later than expected, but it’s worth it.

Back in November, my wife pre-ordered an ESV Personal Size Reference Bible with a lambskin cover, intending to give it to me as a gift in December … it arrived on March 29th. Crossway had some unexpected delays in production, but this brand new edition is finally available.

I’ve never owned a Bible with a lambskin cover. Wow. It’s nice. The Personal Size Reference is the edition of the ESV I’ve used for several years in preaching and teaching classes. And one of the nicest features from Crossway? A lifetime guarantee. This is an expensive edition, but the binding and cover are guaranteed for life. For preachers and teachers, that makes for a great investment.

Click here for more info on the ESV Personal Size Reference Bible with a lambskin cover.

On a side note, every once in a while I’m asked about “breaking in” new Bibles. I ran across this technique several years ago that’s recommended by Oxford University Press. Their leather-bound Bibles come with a little card that explain how to break in a Bible properly.

First, make sure the Bible is at room temperature. Place the Bible perpendicular to a table with the spine on the table and the front edge in the air. Let the front and back cover open while still holding the pages with one hand. Press the cover gently to the table, helping it to open fully. Next, you need to take a few pages from the front of the Bible, open them and gently press them to the front cover. Do the same for the back of the Bible. Continue alternating between the front and back of the Bible until you have the whole Bible open flat on the table. Finally, repeat these instructions two or three times.

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Judges Wordled

March 27, 2011 — Leave a comment

Judges Wordled

(Judges [ESV]  via Wordle)

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Deuteronomy Wordled

January 9, 2011 — Leave a comment

(Deuteronomy [ESV]  via Wordle)

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Scripture, Set Free Into All Technologies

January 8, 2011 — 1 Comment

The Bible has never been easier to access.  Consider this post from Crossway, the publishers of the English Standard Version of the Scriptures:

At Crossway, we have the highest regard for Scripture.  Our passion to reach people with the gospel and the truth of God’s Word is the driving force behind everything that we do.  Including our use of technology.

When we released the  English Standard Version of the Bible in 2001, we immediately made it available  online, for free.  Eager to get the Bible into as many formats as people will read, we’ve released the ESV as an iPhone/iPad app,  Android app, and as an  eBook for your Kindle or Nook.

Prefer to listen to Scripture?   You can stream it at  ESV Online.  We’ve worked with our friends at  Faith Comes By Hearing to offer several audio versions of the Bible, for free.  Another set of audio files is available on  YouTube.

For our technologically savvy friends, we’ve even made the  API to our ESV Bible text and ESV audio available free of charge for non-commercial use.

Why make this content available for free digitally?  Because the Lord has been generous to us by entrusting his Word to us, which is able to make us wise for salvation through faith in Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).  As we are able to by God’s grace, we want to make it easier for people worldwide to access this inexhaustible treasure.

The barrier is low; you’re but a few clicks away from being able to engage the very word of God.

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Numbers Wordled

January 2, 2011 — Leave a comment

(Numbers [ESV]  via Wordle)

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Free App: The ESV on your iPhone or iPod Touch

March 17, 2010 — 3 Comments

Crossway just announced the release of their new ESV Bible app.   For the first time, users can read the ESV Bible on their iPhone or iPod Touch, with or without an internet connection—for free.   Details from the app site:

  • Free.   The only free ESV Bible App that is available on your iPhone or iPod Touch, with or without an internet connection.
  • Use.   Offers a fantastic user experience.   Finding a verse is fast and easy.   Jump from a cross-reference or footnote back to your passage with seamless fluidity.
  • Read.   Scroll through the entire Bible in landscape or full screen modes and enlarge or shrink font sizes to fit your needs.     The ESV Bible App emulates the same unique typography users encounter with print versions of the ESV.
  • Search.   Ever had a verse on the tip of your tongue but can’t remember where it’s found?   Search for it with the Bible App’s comprehensive concordance.
  • Write.   With the ability to record notes, you can capture your thoughts and observations in a sermon or personal Bible study.
  • Highlight.   Highlight verses by simply pressing on them.   Save them in your favorites for future reference.
  • Share.   Share verses with friends and family via email and Twitter.
  • Manage.   Add, delete, or reorder your verse favorites.   Save your own user-defined preferences.

I’m just beginning to tinker with it, but from what I’ve seen so far, it’s my new favorite Bible app.   Definitely worth a free test-drive.

And for those of you using other mobile devices, the ESV blog assures, “we haven’t forgotten about you.   We’re working on it!”

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Memorizing Scripture with your iPod

February 17, 2009 — Leave a comment

Have you considered using your iPod for Scripture memorization?

Blogger B.C. McWhite walks you through the steps for downloading and transferring passages of the ESV to your iPod or any MP3 player:

  1. Open another browser tab so that you can refer back to these instructions as you do what I tell you to do.
  2. Go to the ESV Online site.
  3. In the top right corner, click on the “Options” tab.
  4. Under “Audio Options,” click in one of the buttons for MP3 (I use David Cochran Heath because he has the most “normal” sounding voice).
  5. At the bottom left of the page, click the “Save” button (that should open a page that says, “Your preferences have been saved” at the top).
  6. Type the passage you want (e.g. Ephesians 4:29 or Matthew 6:25-34) into the search bar and click “search.”
  7. When the passage comes up, you should see a link that says “Listen” next to the passage reference.   Control-click (silly PC users right-click) on the “Listen” tab.   A menu box should come up.   Click on “Save Link As…”
  8. When the box pops up, you will have to add an extension name on the end of the title if it doesn’t have one.   So, for example, if the title of your selection is “49004029″³ then you need to add .mp3 on the end, so that it reads “49004029.mp3″³.   Save the file to your Desktop.
  9. Find the file on your desktop and open it with iTunes or Windows Media Player, or whatever you use.   You can then load it onto your iPod, MP3 player, or burn it onto a CD for your car.

ht: ESV Bible Blog

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Looking for a particular Bible passage?

February 17, 2009 — Leave a comment

Add an extremely user-friendly search function to your browser of choice…

…and just like that, you can search the text of the ESV in a flash.   Brilliant!

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