ESV Study Bible Articles
The ESV Study Bible has about 50 essays in the back of the Bible, addressing a number of issues that people inside and outside the church have questions about (e.g., the reliability of the Scriptures and their manuscripts, the canon of Scripture, world religions, how questions of ethics and theology relate to God’s Word, etc.) In addition there are a number of articles throughout the Bible, introducing major sections (e.g., the Pentateuch, the Gospels, etc.).
We thought it might be helpful to list all of the articles, in the order that they appear in the ESVSB.
Read more at the ESV Study Bible Blog.
Encyclopedias in 2010, and in 2008
Neatorama posts a reference to the film 2010, which includes a scene featuring “SAL 9000,” a computer similar to “HAL 9000″ from the original 2001. In the film, made in 1984, SAL is asked to define the word “Phoenix” and responds, “There are 26 references in the standard encyclopedia.”
Well, our reference resources in 2008 far exceed those of the producers of the film. The Wikipedia entry for Phoenix currently lists 166 distinct references to choose from.
Peggy Noonan Gets It
Despite her awful use of “Puritan” as a pejorative, Peggy Noonan gets it…
…you assume evangelical Christians will be appalled and left agitated by the circumstances of Mrs. Palin’s daughter. But modern American evangelicals are among the last people who’d judge her harshly. It is the left that is about to go crazy with Puritan judgments; it is the right that is about to show what mellow looks like. Religious conservatives know something’s wrong with us, that man’s a mess. They are not left dazed by the latest applications of this fact. “This just in – there’s a lot of sinning going on out there” is not a headline they’d understand to be news.
So the media’s going to wait for the Christian right to rise up and condemn Mrs. Palin, and they’re not going to do it because it’s not their way, and in any case her problems are their problems. Christians lived through the second half of the 20th century, and the first years of the 21st. They weren’t immune from the culture, they just eventually broke from it, or came to hold themselves in some ways apart from it. I think the media will explain the lack of condemnation as “Republican loyalty” and “talking points.” But that’s not what it will be.
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