I meant to add this little blurb to my other post but I forgot to do it. For a few months I’ve been thinking of buying a small NT with Psalms and Proverbs to carry around with me. Something really small and light weight. I had a look at a local bookstore but they were either too expensive or not well made. So after reading this post I decided to pick up a copy with my purchase of The Bible Experience since the shipping is free this way. This small edition of the ESV has a nice TruTone binding that I like from Crossway and with a sewn binding. The only drawback seems to be that it is a red letter edition, but for $11 I won’t complain too much.
August 16, 2008
I just ordered The Bible Experience today and am really looking forward to it. After one of my earlier posts about alternatives I have done some searching and really couldn’t find anything else that looked more appealing. I spend 90 minutes in my car every day commuting now so this should be a good way for me to spend time with scripture while I’m stuck in the car. I’ll post again with my thoughts once I’ve spent some time with it.
August 10, 2008
Students will return to school this Thursday, and all teachers are required to be back starting on Monday. This is a new job for me and I’ve actually spent the last week in training and orientation sessions. I’ve been able to spend a little bit of time organizing the room and buying a few supplies; special thanks to my mother who helped out two days with cleaning up some of the unforgivable messes left behind by the prior teacher. In case you haven’t noticed, my blog presence is much lower than it used to be. I’m afraid that this will continue to be the case until I’ve established a routine at school and things are running smoothly. Your prayers are welcomed as I make my final preparations for the beginning of a new school year.
July 30, 2008
Jeff over at the Scripture Zealot blog has posted a great article about a translation of scripture called The Source. You can read it online in pdf format, or buy a print copy from Amazon like I just did: The Source New Testament With Extensive Notes on Greek Word Meaning. I was extremely pleased with the contents of this translation after examining the preview at Amazon and decided to buy a copy. I’ve also been thinking that I am probably well overdue to buy a copy of the NET bible with all of it’s notes, or perhaps the NET diglot since I am mostly interested in New Testament studies right now.
Actually… I just checked Logos and I have a copy of the NET with notes already. However I think I’d benefit more from having them in a print copy with the notes readily accessible on the same page. Something about having the notations pop up when I mouse-hover just isn’t the same for me. Not to mention that I have difficulty doing any sort of serious study from a computer screen. Back to my original point though, I’ve just ordered this study edition of The Source and will be posting some more thoughts on it in the future.
July 26, 2008
I bought this translation last month for a few dollars. I’d never heard of it before and it had some interesting things in page layout and translation design that were immediately obvious as I flipped through it. It doesn’t appear to be a wierd translation or anything, but I was wondering if anyone was familiar with it, or knows anything else about it. Here’s the website, and specifically a link to the page that has links to the translation itself. Note that these are all .pdfs so they may take a while to load. Also, after a very brief examination of Matt. 1 online with my print copy, it is obvious that I have an earlier version from what is online.
http://www.godsword.org/cgi-bin/gwstore.cgi?cart_id=5100395_33680&page=books.htm
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