ESV Personal Size Reference Bible, Mahogany, Trellis Design Trutone

Description

About This Edition:

With its handy size and helpful
tools, the ESV Personal Size Reference Bible is ideal for taking with you
everywhere and using every day. It includes these helpful reference features:

• Convenient, portable size

• More than 80,000 cross-references

• Concordance with nearly 6,000
  references

• Single-column, paragraph format

• Readable black letter text

• Free ESV Bible Resources download
  or CD-ROM available

Introduction to the
ESV Bible

The ESV Bible is a
new, essentially literal Bible
translation that combines word-for-word
precision and accuracy with literary
excellence, beauty, and readability.

The English Standard Version (ESV) is
a “word-for-word, “essentially
literal translation because every
word of the Bible is inspired by God.

Based on this principle, more than
sixty of the world’s
leading Bible scholar spored over
every word and phrase to achieve the
unique accuracy, excellence, and beauty
of the ESV Bible.

The result is a new Bible translation
(published in October 2001) that has a
timeless quality and enduring
relevance-a translation to trust for
today and for generations to come.

With its distinctive combination of
accuracy, excellence, and beauty, the
ESV is ideally suited to become one
Bible to meet our needs for all of life:

• For personal reading and
  in-depth study
• For preaching, teaching, and
  public worship
• For family reading and devotions
• For memorizing and understanding
  the Word of God

Translation Philosophy

The ESV is an
“essentially literal”
translation that seeks as
far as possible to capture
the precise wording of the
original text and the
personal style of each Bible
writer. As such, its
emphasis is on
“word-for-word”
correspondence, at the same
time taking into account
differences of grammar,
syntax, and idiom between
current literary English and
the original languages. Thus
it seeks to be
transparent to the original
text, letting the
reader see as directly as
possible the structure and
meaning of the original.

In contrast to the ESV,
some Bible versions
have followed a
“thought-for-thought” rather
than “word-for-word”
translation philosophy,
emphasizing “dynamic
equivalence” rather than the
“essentially literal”
meaning of the original. A
“thought-for-thought”
translation is of necessity
more inclined to reflect the
interpretive opinions of the
translator and the
influences of contemporary
culture.

Every translation is at
many points a trade-off
between literal precision
and readability, between
“formal equivalence” in
expression and “functional
equivalence” in
communication, and the ESV
is no exception. Within this
framework we have sought to
be “as literal as
possible” while
maintaining clarity
of expression and literary
excellence.

Therefore, to the extent
that plain English permits
and the meaning in each case
allows, we have sought to
use the same English word
for important recurring
words in the original; and,
as far as grammar and syntax
allow, we have rendered Old
Testament passages cited in
the New in ways that show
their correspondence. Thus
in each of these areas, as
well as throughout the Bible
as a whole, we have sought
to capture the
echoes and overtones of
meaning that are so
abundantly present in the
original texts.

As an essentially literal
translation, then, the ESV
seeks to carry over every
possible nuance of meaning
in the original words of
Scripture into our own
language. As such, it is
ideally suited for in-depth
study of the Bible. Indeed,
with its emphasis on
literary excellence,
the ESV is equally suited
for public reading and
preaching, for private
reading and reflection, for
both academic and devotional
study, and for Scripture
memorization

Product Details:

• ISBN-10: 1433503905

• ISBN-13: 9781433503900

• Format: Mahogany, Trellis
  Design
  TruTone

• Pages: 1408

• Size: 5 1/4 x 7 5/8 x 1 1/4 Inches

• 7.4 Point Type

• Published: Aug 31, 2009