Mobile Ministry Magazine

When I got started with the Bible side of PDA life, it was really hard to find or create a digital version of modern translations. Due to publishing rights, this was frankly an impossible task unless you had the tools and knew the rights-laws for your region.

Since then, mobile Bible reading has been seen in a more favorable light and its been folks like Crossway (ESV) that have done a lot of this pushing into mobile media.

In a recent announcement, "Crossway has partnered with the leading digital software providers, including Accordance, Biblesoft, Laridian, Olive Tree, and WORDsearch, to make the ESV Study Bible available with all of its notes, articles, and features."

What does that mean? Well, no matter if the ESV is your cup of tea or not, there's no excuse, no matter what mobile device that you have, towards having a solid Biblical reference on your person.

The ESV Study Bible contains more than just the Biblical text, it also has the translator notes and references that makes for a better understanding as to why certain words/phrases were used. Basically, this makes it so that you don't have to understand Greek to know why something was used, but can use some textual analysis of your own to decide whether the translation is speaking correctly.

The ESV Study Bible will be available from electronic distributors such as Laridian, Olive Tree, and more. I'm not sure if Palm Bible+ will get it, but that would be pretty cool. There's also an offer going on where if you purchase the print edition of the ESV Study Bible that you'd get the online edition free. This is a nice way to bundle and shows some forward thinking for those who still need to touch the leaves when feeding the Spirit :)

Labels: Bible, Bible+, ESV, Laridian, mobile, Olivetree, software