Comments on: Why Do I Use the English Standard Version?

By: thislamp

thislamp — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:13:30 +0000

No, Steve, you weren’t stealing thunder at all! I happened to see your comment and link and thought that I’d give an exact permalink for folks who look at this a few days from now or even longer.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:09:37 +0000

Sorry Rick, I didn’t mean to steal your thunder. Hadn’t dawned on me ’till after the fact that you’ve been posting comments in here yoruself. My bad. : |

By: Matthew R. Perry

Matthew R. Perry — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:50:56 +0000

Nicely done, Rick!

By: thislamp

thislamp — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:48:36 +0000

Here’s a permalink to the official Crossway comment (for those looking at these comments at a later time than today): http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/thislamp/files/20060811_official_word_from_crossway.html

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:27:33 +0000

Here’s more hard evidence- official word even…

http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/thislamp/index.html

By: Matthew R. Perry

Matthew R. Perry — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:20:01 +0000

Thanks, David. If that is the extent of the changes, I’ll stick with the one I have for now.

By: David Dewey

David Dewey — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:57:21 +0000

A clue – even hard evidence – that the revised ESV may be imminent. The ESV blog has an entry which reproduces Acts 1 from the soon-to-be published reverse interlinear. Verse 3 differs from currently printed ESVs. The interlinear has, ‘He presented himself alive to them…’; the standard ESV has ‘To them he presented himself alive…’.
This suggests the main revisions will be the ironing out of occurences of less than natural word order.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:57:00 +0000

Well then, let’s speculate a tad more, shall we?

This means:
a) The revisions aren’t significant enough to warrant holding off on new editions before then.

b) The new editions coming out before 2007 will also include the revisions (this includes the reverse interlinear), and they’ll be publishing a revised text without telling you.

c) They are being extra quiet about any revisions, since this will certaintly ruin sales for the remainder of 2006.

d) both a and c

e) None of the above

There, I’ve added to the endless speculation, and made this comment section 1 post longer! ; )

-Steve

By: David Dewey

David Dewey — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 18:18:51 +0000

One high-level leak suggests that Crossway intend to publish a single-column reference ESV in January 2007 and that this will have the revised text. But this seems to contradict the fact that Crossway has several new editions in the pipeline before 2007, including the wide margin moleskin (just out), the Greek reverse interlinear, the Daily Reading edition, God’s Story editions, not to mention several new bindings/colours for existing editions. People who buy these and then discover a new edition in 2007 may feel badly let down.

By: M.R. Perry

M.R. Perry — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:42:54 +0000

Please keep in mind, that speculation did not originate on this blog. We will never know until one day on the ESV site we’ll see — “And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for!!! The Deluxe Reference Reformation Study Journaling TruTone Battlezone Edition! Now wouldn’t THAT be something? He-he!