• Two new study Bibles worth a mention:
The ESV Study Bible won't be released until October but the marketing guys are already busy. I'm sure that in keeping with the ESV tradition it will be substantial and significant.
The Essential Study Bible from the American Bible Society has just been released. This is in someways quite the opposite of the ESV Study Bible -- dealing with essentials -- less minutia -- not trying to be the ultimate comprehensive study Bible. The reason that the Essential Study Bible has caught my attention is that it is based on the dynamic equivalent translation CEV -- which is what I've been trying to get our English as second language students to embrace.The ABS isn't as aggressive in their marketing as they ESV folk so most people are not really aware of the CEV option -- or the Essential Study Bible.
• Twenty-six previously unknown sermons by St Augustine have been discovered -- Concealed in a medieval parchment manuscript amongst 70 other religious texts are ca 26 sermons attributed to Augustine, three of them on brotherly love and alms-giving. These were known previously only by their titles cited in Possidius’ Indiculum. One sermon is on the martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, and another on the recently martyred Cyprian, the latter of which condemns the copious drinking that took place on saints’ feast days. The final sermon deals with resurrection of the dead and biblical prophecies. ~ Link
• "Googlegängers" -- people you meet online because they share the same name. We are "unconsciously drawn to people and things that remind us of ourselves." ~ Source
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