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ESV Available through A9.com OpenSearch

Screenshot of A9.com search result showing John 3:16 You can now search the ESV Bible from A9.com.

A9.com (part of Amazon.com) recently unveiled its OpenSearch initiative to allow websites to syndicate their search results.

For certain types of searches, specialized search engines return better results than general search engines. For example, a search for Habakkuk 3 returns less than ideal results compared to the ESV Online Edition’s results for Habakkuk 3.

OpenSearch allows anyone with a website to publish their search results in a way that other websites can read. In turn, those search results can appear on A9.com.

What does all this technical mumbo-jumbo mean for you? You can now search the ESV directly from A9.com without visiting the ESV website. Read details on how to set it up.

For Developers

If you’re a web developer, you can use the ESV’s search results on your website either using OpenSearch or the ESV Web Service.

We already export our search results in a number of different formats (including RSS), so creating an OpenSearch-compatible file only took a few hours to set up. The ESV was the first and (at the time of this writing) only Bible available through this service.

April 25, 2005 | Posted in: Digital,ESV | Author: Crossway Staff @ 10:30 am | Comments Off »

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FAQ: Which Greek Texts Did the Translators Use?

While we can’t answer every translation question that comes to us, we do get a few questions often enough that they demand replies. Here is one such question.

Why did you use the UBS and Nestle Aland Greek texts in translating the ESV?

You can find the official answer on the Manuscripts Used in Translating the ESV page on this website.

Marvin Padgett of Crossway Bibles elaborates:

The UBS and Nestle Aland editions of the Greek NT referenced in the front of the ESV are the standard Greek NT editions used in the scholarly world. All of the ESV Translation Oversight Committee (TOC) had access to more texts/editions and versions than indicated. They used many other editions and versions, and standard reference tools, but the UBS and NA-27 editions were the touchstones for the Greek text. Also, all of the ESV TOC members were well aware of the debates and issues surrounding the debates over the reliability and veracity of the various Greek NT texts/editions.

In fall 2005 you will be able to see more clearly how the ESV TOC handled these questions in our publication of a reverse interlinear featuring the ESV.

April 22, 2005 | Posted in: ESV,Translation | Author: Crossway Staff @ 9:00 am | Comments Off »

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Blog Bible Giveaway — None Left

Update at 11:30 AM EDT (April 20): We don’t have any free Bibles left. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Do you:

  • Have a blog with a blogroll?
  • Live in the US, Canada, the UK, or Australia?
  • Want a free ESV Bible?

We’re giving away a free ESV Bible to the first 100 people who add the ESV Bible Blog to their blogroll.

What to do to claim your free Bible:

  1. Add our link (http://www.esv.org/blog) to your blogroll.
  2. Choose which Bible you’d like free. You can have any Compact TruTone or Compact TruGrip edition published by Crossway.
  3. Send an email to blog@esv.org containing the url of your blog, your postal mailing address, and the color/design of the Bible you would like.

We will visit your blog to double-check your blogroll, email you to inform you that you’ve been accepted, and then we’ll ship you a free Bible. No strings attached.

We ask that you keep us on your blogroll at least until your Bible arrives (2-3 weeks), but your blogroll is yours–you’re free to remove us at any time. We hope, though, that if you enjoy the ESV, we’ll earn a permanent place on your blogroll.

Legal info: This offer is open to bloggers in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia. Only blogs that link directly to the ESV blog in their blogrolls qualify. A “blogroll” is a list of links that appears on most pages in a blog. Limit one free Bible per blog and per household. We will not use your email address for any purpose beyond communicating with you about this offer.

Here’s an example email:

Subject: Blogroll Bible request

Hello, my blog is at http://example.com/blog

My address is:
John Doe
123 Main St
Wheaton, IL 60187

I would like an Olive (Celtic Cross Design) Compact TruTone.

April 19, 2005 | Posted in: ESV,General | Author: Crossway Staff @ 10:00 am | (2) Comments »

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An ESV “Meme in the Making?”

Adrian Warnock, a blogger whom we linked to earlier, in three posts finds and links to much of the online conversation going on right now about the ESV. We’ll be linking soon to some of the pages he mentions, but if you don’t want to wait for us, head over to Adrian’s blog for details.

April 18, 2005 | Posted in: ESV,General | Author: Crossway Staff @ 8:00 am | Comments Off »

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“Books Every Christian Should Read: the ESV”

Adrian Warnock, a preacher/blogger from the UK, writes about the ESV:

It is my primary translation and the one I read from almost every time I preach….

The ESV is as close to being word for word as it is reasonable to be without compromising on both readability and the accurate conveying of the sense of the words. As a preacher I feel that other translations often tend to do a little bit of my work for me, which can be fine and certainly I love referring to them, but if I want to get as close as possible to the original word of God I reach for the ESV every time.

Using the ESV I quickly realised that on almost every occasion where a commentator said “what the original really means here is….” the ESV had got there already. It is almost enough to stop a man reading commentaries!

The whole post has more praise for the ESV.

Update: fixed Adrian’s job description.

April 15, 2005 | Posted in: ESV,General | Author: Crossway Staff @ 1:13 pm | Comments Off »

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