Comments on: ESV Study Bible: I can wait…can’t I? http://briandblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/esv-study-bible-i-can-waitcant-i/ Fighting the good fight, running the race, keeping the faith, staying the course Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:20:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Linkathon 10/2 at Phoenix Preacher http://briandblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/esv-study-bible-i-can-waitcant-i/#comment-72 Linkathon 10/2 at Phoenix Preacher Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:55:03 +0000 http://briandblog.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-72 [...] had my own take on study Bibles (including the ESV Study [...] [...] had my own take on study Bibles (including the ESV Study [...]

]]> By: mdsf http://briandblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/esv-study-bible-i-can-waitcant-i/#comment-63 mdsf Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:29:30 +0000 http://briandblog.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-63 I wouldn't want to overstate the case, but I haven't seen a word-of-mouth campaign like this since a certain Mel Gibson movie. I wouldn’t want to overstate the case, but I haven’t seen a word-of-mouth campaign like this since a certain Mel Gibson movie.

]]> By: briwd2006 http://briandblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/esv-study-bible-i-can-waitcant-i/#comment-62 briwd2006 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:32:25 +0000 http://briandblog.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-62 Take the ESV study Bible for what it's worth. I find it interesting that no one online has challenged Crossway on pushing a consumer product. WIth all these endorsements, from Driscoll to Joni Eareckson Tada to Piper, Crossway either is doing one heck of a job of promotion or this is one heck of a study Bible. Take the ESV study Bible for what it’s worth.

I find it interesting that no one online has challenged Crossway on pushing a consumer product. WIth all these endorsements, from Driscoll to Joni Eareckson Tada to Piper, Crossway either is doing one heck of a job of promotion or this is one heck of a study Bible.

]]> By: mdsf http://briandblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/esv-study-bible-i-can-waitcant-i/#comment-60 mdsf Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:46:21 +0000 http://briandblog.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-60 You can probably guess what I'm going to say about this, but the pre-publication discussion of the ESV Study Bible has me pretty wound up. I can't help but see this as just another well-done campaign for yet another consumer product, but frankly (living and having lived in the shadow of the Scofield Reference Bible my entire life) a more troubling consumer product than most, because study Bibles tend to suggest that the particular doctrinal biases of the authors of the study helps are correct, as opposed to simply being study helps. Not to mention the question of the money: CrossWay is <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/about" rel="nofollow">non-profit</a>, and they <a href="http://www.esv.org/about/faq" rel="nofollow">own the ESV text and do not pay royalties</a>, but I haven't found anything online about the various supplemental texts. You can probably guess what I’m going to say about this, but the pre-publication discussion of the ESV Study Bible has me pretty wound up.

I can’t help but see this as just another well-done campaign for yet another consumer product, but frankly (living and having lived in the shadow of the Scofield Reference Bible my entire life) a more troubling consumer product than most, because study Bibles tend to suggest that the particular doctrinal biases of the authors of the study helps are correct, as opposed to simply being study helps.

Not to mention the question of the money: CrossWay is non-profit, and they own the ESV text and do not pay royalties, but I haven’t found anything online about the various supplemental texts.

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