BIBLE TRANSLATIONS – Based on Unit Sales
1 New International Version
2 New King James Version
3 King James Version
4 New Living Translation
5 Holman Christian Standard Bible
6 English Standard Version
7 Reina Valera 1960 (Spanish)
8 New American Standard Bible update
9 The Message
10 New International Readers Version

via – CBA

With far too many upgrades, features, and resources to cover in a single post, you can visit www.logos.com/4 to see what Logos 4 can do to take your study of the Bible to the next level.

The new recordings include:

• Dan, East – Cote d’Ivoire
• Garhwali – India
• Kimochi (Mochi) – Tanzania
• Koma (Konni) – Ghana
• Ndau – Mozambique
• Quechua, North Bolivia – Bolivia
• Mooré – Burkina Faso
• New American Bible – USA

Of the new language groups represented, the Koma language group in Ghana is the smallest with only 3,800 people. And with not a single Koma person believed to be literate, the newly released Audio Bible will finally provide a chance for the group to hear God’s Word in their own “heart language.”

“That’s why Faith Comes By Hearing records and uses audio Bibles to reach the world,” said Morgan Jackson, the ministry’s international director, in a report. “We believe God’s Word is for all people, especially those with the least access.”

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NASHVILLE — Long before cable television, spa treatments and eco-friendly soaps and shampoos became staples in hotel rooms, there was the Bible — the Gideon Bible.

And the book with the familiar two-handled pitcher and torch on its cover that most guests find inside hotel nightstands doesn’t appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.

Gideons International is celebrating its 100th anniversary distributing Bibles and has begun efforts to hand out more Scriptures in the U.S. to boost a distribution rate that’s remained relatively flat in recent years.

Nearly 76.9 million Gideon Scriptures were given out in nearly 85 languages in 187 countries last year. Close to 1.5 billion Scriptures have been distributed since 1908, when the Gideons first began to place Bibles in hotel rooms.

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After reading Mohler’s post I don’t even want to bother reading the article… alas, I probably should. But why waste my time reading something from a publication that believes I am intellectually bankrupt.

“Given the history of the making of the Scriptures and the millennia of critical attention scholars and others have given to the stories and injunctions that come to us in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament, to argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt—it is unserious, and unworthy of the great Judeo-Christian tradition.” Newsweek editor Jon Meacham

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 award-winning Bible software from the ground up for Mac.

“With more and more of our users switching to Mac, it just made sense for us to build Logos for Mac,” said Bob Pritchett, President of Logos Bible Software. “Many Mac users have been running Logos using Boot Camp or programs like Parallels. We’re happy to announce they can now run Logos natively.”

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As a Mac and Logos user, I’m pretty excited… I’m also a Logos employee… but I was the first two before that. Oh, happy day!

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 more quickly. Read the full article

There are currently abou 2,400 languages that still fo not have the Bible in their own language. To find out more and how you can help, visit www.wycliffe.org.

The pope’s concern touches several levels. For one thing, despite an upsurge in biblical interest after the Second Vatican Council, only a minority of Catholics read the Bible regularly. The pope views the lack of scriptural formation as part of a wider crisis of catechetics in the church.

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So in convoking some 250 bishops for the Oct. 5-26 synod, the pope did not intend to host a forum for scriptural analysis. His primary interest is pastoral, and a main challenge is to lead more Catholics to the Bible.

As he told synod planners earlier this year, reading, interpreting and living the words of Scripture are fundamental to the faith life of Christians. Without that, the church’s great works in the modern age — including evangelization and ecumenism — are bound to stall, he said.

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And while specialists are needed, he said, “the real and essential meaning of the Bible is something the simple believer can grasp just as well.”

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One of Pope Benedict’s primary convictions is that the New Testament offers the key to understanding the Old Testament and that, as a whole, the Bible necessarily leads to Christ.

But he believes this traditional Christological approach has been threatened by some modern schools of interpretation that would limit the meaning of any biblical book to the author’s historical context.

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Instead, he said, his method takes the conviction of faith — faith that Jesus truly was God — as a starting point for reading Scripture. This approach allows for a proper theological interpretation of the Bible, yet does not sacrifice the church’s “serious engagement with history,” he said.

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What’s important, he once said, is to “read the Bible regularly, to let it keep us company and guide us.”

Man, there is some seriously good stuff in there. I truly hope that the our Catholic brothers and sisters will heed the Pope’s words and pick up their Bibles and begin to read!

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 than 60 countries. With the help of a new hangar-sized facility, the company is on its way to becoming the biggest Bible factory in the world, cranking out 12 million copies a year. Read the whole story

While exciting, does this not seem strange when you consider stories like we covered a couple weeks ago?

If you’re interested, here are the conpany’s stats on how many Bible’s they’ve cranked out since 1988 (64,552,428). Also, here are some of the Bible’s they’ve printed.

Anyone got some thougts on this?