Scott Yang's Playground

My long waited NCV-ESV Bible has finally arrived! The first time I heard about it was from an ICQ conversation with Joel from Singapore last April. It was actually quite exciting to hear a publisher combining probably two of the finest translation to date – New Chinese Version 新譯本 and English Standard Version – into [...]

This morning the sermon at International Unichurch, the passage preached was Ecclesiastes 4-6. Simon and Jieni were the Bible readers for that passage, and they encountered an interesting differences between ESV “versions“. Here is an extract of Ecclesiastes 5:3 from the English Standard Version bible.

I first saw it on Glenn Slaven‘s blogsite, that the publisher of the English Standard Version Bible, Good News Publisher, is now providing RSS feed for ESV. It provides two kinds of feed – verse of the day as well as querying, and RSS 2 result is returned. Congratulation goes to GNP for adding more [...]

The English Standard Version Bible has been released in late 2001, and we bought the Crossway one pretty much straight afterwards when they landed Australia. However, I have been sharing the ESV with Vivian my wife for the last year since we have only bought one, and I still spent most of my time reading [...]

I have learnt something from Phillp Jensen’s talk last night about the differences between the ESVand NIV. Phillip used this example to show the superiority of the English Standard Version, because it helps you to work out some meaning of the original text where it is difficult or impossible with the New International Version. Phillip [...]

In MYC, Rod ran a little competition, requesting all the creative phrases and essays around ESV. My favourite goes something like this. A while ago was the RSV, which is the Real Simple Version. However, it was not easy to read so here comes the NIV, the Non-Intellecture Version. But, it is still too difficult [...]