Talk:ESV Study Bible

This article was nominated for deletion on 25 September 2016. The result of the discussion was keep.

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The ESV Study Bible marks a significant contribution of evangelical Christian publishing in the 21st century and is directly related to the article on the ESV.

There are currently articles existing on other study Bibles such as the NIV, Life Application, MacArthur, etc. The ESVSB takes a significant step forward in the creation and publication of study Bibles and my intention is to start a stub article noting this.Travisbuck (talk) 00:27, 25 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unencyclopedic Content[edit]

Having the complete list of contributors is bad for many reasons:

It's obviously direct from Crossway or a similar source, so it's copyrighted text.
It's not encyclopedic. If people care about the authors, list *some* of the editors--the ones about whom I have heard.
It makes the page much longer than necessary.

76.104.249.167 (talk) 00:54, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agree. Generally speaking, Wikipedia guidelines for lists of people say that only notable people (such as having a Wikipedia biography linked here) should be listed. As to copyrighted text possibly being used, do you have a url link to verify that? JGHowes ^talk 03:28, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The list is here (although you might not be able to see it unless registered, registration is free for the rest of the month). However, since it's not actual creative content (for example, phone book data is not copyrighted), it might not be copyrighted anyway. Nonetheless, it doesn't belong here. 76.104.249.167 (talk) 06:09, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's the same list but ensured to be publicly accessible. Kingdmj (talk) 02:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, no creative prose is being used verbatim without attribution that I can see, so at least it's not a copyvio just to list a book's authors and/or editors. Listing all of the editors for every book of the Bible seems to be a bit of a directory or cruft, which we don't do any more than enumerating a school's faculty, etc. What this article really needs are reliable, third-party secondary sources reviewing or providing critical commentary about the ESV Study Bible. JGHowes ^talk 03:30, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed there. In the meantime, are there any observers who would object to the deletion of that large text? Kingdmj (talk) 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The following editors/contributors seem to be notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia. Perhaps they should be mentioned in connection with this translation?

Ἀλήθεια (talk) 19:17, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Word count of commentary[edit]

20 minutes into a recent interview, Wayne Grudem said it contained 1.4 million words of commentary^[1].

References

^ "Wayne Grudem: What Does It Mean to Be Led by the Spirit? - Break Point". Break Point. 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2018-12-01.

[1] "Wayne Grudem: What Does It Mean to Be Led by the Spirit? - Break Point". Break Point. 2018-11-28. Retrieved 2018-12-01.

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