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Bible Cannon Chart
Bible Study Magazine has a really helpful Canon chart online to help you see the difference in some of the Bibles used today. This is a very interesting and helpful chart.
Continue ReadingNewsweek and Gay Marriage
Newsweek’s cover story is, you may have heard, on the Bible and gay marriage. While I haven’t read the article, I shall refer you to Al Mohler who has some good things to say about it. After reading Mohler’s post I don’t even want to bother reading the article… alas, I probably should. But [...]
Continue ReadingLogos for Mac is Now Shipping
The highly popular Logos Bible Software is now shipping their Mac version. Logos Bible Software began shipping the much anticipated Logos for Mac today to individuals who pre-ordered the program on www.MacBibleSoftware.com. Not being satisfied to simply port their windows version over to Mac using an emulator, Logos Bible Software spent three-and-a-half years rebuilding their [...]
Continue Reading$50 Million for Bible Translations
I love that even though we are in difficult times, God will still find men and women to fund his work: An anonymous donor gave a huge sum of $50 million to Wycliffe Bible Translators this week making it possible to translate Scripture for the last people groups still without the Bible in their native tongue [...]
Continue ReadingThe Pope and the Bible
I just finished a great article over at The Catholic Free Press about the upcomming Synod of Bishops in October. While, sure, as a protestant I have issue with a handfull of Catholic doctrines, however, whenever I hear something about Pope Benedict XVI I always get a little excited because of his passion for [...]
Continue ReadingChina Set to have World’s Largest Bible Printer
In Nanjing, China, the Nanjing Amity Printing Company is cranking out a bunch of Bibles and is on track to soon become the biggest printer of Bibles in the world. Since its first Bible rolled off the presses two decades ago, Amity has printed more than 50 million copies in 75 languages and exported to more [...]
Continue ReadingDead Sea Scrolls Online
In case you haven’t heard, the NY Times ran an article about the Israel Antiquities Authority’s plan to digitally photograph and make available online all of the Dead Sea Scrolls. In a crowded laboratory painted in gray and cooled like a cave, half a dozen specialists embarked this week on a historic undertaking: digitally photographing every [...]
Continue ReadingWho Translated Your Bible
Temper Longman has a helpful article on the NLT Blog (New Living Translation) pointing out why it is important to know who translated your Bible: So why does the NLT list the names of its ninety translators? It’s not to stroke the egos of the scholars. Indeed, I get embarrassed when people ask me to autograph [...]
Continue ReadingTo Translate or Not to Translate
There is a great article at Christianity Today on the controversy surrounding the translation of the Bible into patois, Jamaica’s Creole language. The debate stems around a couple points. First, paois is a primairly a spoken language and has no standard writing system. Along with this, the official language of Jamaica is Standard [...]
Continue ReadingESV Study Bible Blog
The ESV has launched a new blog about their upcoming ESV Study Bible. So far the site already has a lot of resources about this upcoming release, including the intro to the Gospel according to Luke, examples of the different types of notes that the study bible will contain, an intro and 2 chapters of [...]
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