The ESV Study Bible
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Mark Driscoll has had a sneak peek at the forthcoming ESV Study Bible and blogs on it this morning. He writes: "To be honest, I actually got choked up when I looked through it for the first time because I know what a gift it is to an emerging generation of Bible preachers and teachers who are committed to timeless truth and timely methods. . . . Without blowing all of their marketing strategies in preparation for its October 15, 2008 debut, I decided to leak a few details that are particularly exciting." Read the whole thing.
The official ESV Study Bible page at this time is just a place to enter an email for more info. But on April 15 you'll be able to see and learn a whole lot more. Also, if you go to T4G (which I won't be able to attend, unfortunately), the Crossway table should have a good deal of information if you want to see some of what it will look like.
The official ESV Study Bible page at this time is just a place to enter an email for more info. But on April 15 you'll be able to see and learn a whole lot more. Also, if you go to T4G (which I won't be able to attend, unfortunately), the Crossway table should have a good deal of information if you want to see some of what it will look like.
posted by JT at Friday, April 11, 2008
8 Comments:
I understand how business has to get done, but "marketing strategies" for the Bible just has a cringe inducing ring to it.
"Salvation inside these pages, just $49.99 while supplies last!"
JT,
Do you know if the study notes will be available in formats besides the actual ESV Study Bible. For those of us who have an ESV bible already, it would be nice to get the riches of the study notes without needing to buy another bible. Maybe like John MacArthur's one-volume commentary. Will the study notes be available in electronic formats for Logos and Accordance?
Joshua
I have to ask ... do we really need yet ANOTHER study Bible? How about turning to the Holy Spirit instead of another group of men, no matter how educated and intelligent they may be. The market is flooded with Bibles of various translations and collections of study notes. I just think it's come to the point of enough is enough.
I have the Reformation ESV Bible already. R.C. Sproul is the editor. How is this ESV Study Bible different?
R.C. Sproul was the general editor of the Reformation Study Bible. Wayne Grudem is the general editor of this new study Bible. Grudem and Sproul are both reformed, but they disagree on a few issues such as baptism, eschatology, spiritual gifts, etc.
I purchased the Reformation Study Bible and it is useful when you're in a 6:30 AM study with the youth group and don't have all your study tools available. But I'm very excited about this new version, as I tend to agree more with Grudem than I do with Sproul, so I'll feel like I can trust the study notes more.
Based on the very limited information that Mark Driscoll conveys, I am almost choked up myself. It seems that this study Bible may just be truly phenomenal. There are some very good (and not so good) study Bibles available, but this one really seems to be in a class by itself. I have been hoping for just such a tool. I can't wait until April 15th to see more, and the October release. Knowing the role JT had in this endeaver inclined me to expect just such a result. JT thank you for your efforts, thank you for your faithfulness to God and His truth, thank you for this blog-------it's one of the first places I check every day. It is immensely helpful and informative!
The ESV is my preferred translation, and the list of scholars Driscoll notes is impressive... though I would consider them "Reformed-friendly." Confessional Reformed Christians will likely stick with their existing study Bibles, though I would expect there to be much to be learned from the _ESV Study Bible_ too.
The best line from Driscoll's review here:
"...thank you Crossway for the 'filthy sick' ESV Study Bible."
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