It’s the first ever Biblioblog Top 50 – for the month of October 2008.
The Biblioblog Top 50 ranks each biblical studies blog, or ‘biblioblog’, by the total number of unique visitors it receives each month.
And now, the moment you have all been waiting for …
Biblioblog Top 50 – October 2008
| 1 | James McGrath | Exploring Our Matrix |
| 2 | Scot McKnight | Jesus Creed |
| 3 | Mark Goodacre | NT Gateway Weblog |
| 4 | Ben Witherington | Ben Witherington |
| 5 | Airton José da Silva | Observatório Bíblico |
| 6 | Jim West | Jim West |
| 7 | Claude Mariottini | Claude Mariottini |
| 8 | Bibbiablog guys | Bibbiablog |
| 9 | Philip Davies, Thomas Thompson, Keith Whitelam, Niels Peter Lemche, John Van Seters & Jim West | Guild of Biblical Minimalists |
| 10 | Michael S. Heiser | The Naked Bible, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Scribal Practices, Two Powers in Heaven |
| 11 | Jim Davila | PaleoJudaica |
| 12 | Tyler F. Williams | Codex |
| 13 | Nick Norelli | Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth |
| 14 | N. T. Wrong | N. T. Wrong Blog |
| 15 | David Hymes | Hebrew Scriptures and More …. |
| 16 | James Crossley | Earliest Christian History |
| 17 | Antonio Lombatti | Pseudoscienze cristiane antiche e medievali |
| 18 | Phil Harland | Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean |
| 19 | Iyov’s companion | Iyov |
| 20 | DLC | Balashon |
| 21 | Edward Cook | Ralph the Sacred River |
| 22 | JV, Mike Holmes, Simon Gathercole, Christian Askeland, Martin Heide, j.-l. simonet, Peter R. Rodgers, Peter M. Head, Bill Warren, Dirk Jongkind, Gie Vleugels, Amy Anderson, P.J. Williams, maurice a robinson, Michael F. Bird, Randall Buth, Tommy Wasserman, | Evangelical Textual Criticism |
| 23 | Rod Decker | NT Resources Blog |
| 24 | Kevin P. Edgecomb | Biblicalia |
| 25 | Charles Halton | Awilum |
| 26 | John Hobbins | Ancient Hebrew Poetry |
| 27 | David Ashford | Bite My Bible |
| 28 | Jin Yang Kim | Old Testament Story |
| 29 | Ken Brown | C. Orthodoxy |
| 30 | Ben C. Smith, Chris Weimer, Chris Zeichmann, Peter Kirby, Roger Pearse, Walter M. Shandruk | Thoughts on Antiquity |
| 31 | Michael Barber, Brant Pitre | Singing in the Reign |
| 32 | Kevin Sam | New Epistles |
| 33 | Doug Chaplin | Metacatholic |
| 34 | Roland Boer | Stalin’s Moustache |
| 35 | Duane Smith | Abnormal Interests |
| 36 | Chris Tilling | Chrisendom |
| 37 | Jim Darlack | Old in the New |
| 38 | Stephen C. Carlson | Hypotyposeis |
| 39 | Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira | Estudos Bíblicos |
| 40 | Torrey Seland | Philo Redivivus |
| 41 | Chris Brady | Targuman |
| 42 | Darrell Pursiful | Dr. Platypus |
| 43 | Bryan Lilly | ΚΑΤΑΓΡΑΦΑΙΣ / Katagraphais |
| 44 | Torrey Seland | R P B S Blog |
| 45 | James Tabor | The Jesus Dynasty |
| 46 | Phil Sumpter | Narrative and Ontology |
| 47 | Kevin A. Wilson | Blue Cord |
| 48 | Art Boulet | Finitum Non Capax Infiniti |
| 49 | Bill Heroman | Bible/History Blog |
| 50 | Loren Rosson | The Busybody |
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Technical bits:
A blog is included in the rankings if it contains substantial content related to biblical studies or closely related fields, evidences a scholarly approach to biblical studies (not requiring academic qualifications, but excluding blogs with mainly homiletic or devotional content, unscholarly approaches, or a primarily theological focus), and is currently active and posting.
Ranking is based on information supplied by Alexa for the current month. Blogs are ordered by an average of the weekly rankings provided by Alexa, a website which provides the percentage of total internet users for each blog. In the event of a tie, blogs are then ordered according to the blog’s rank for total traffic each week. [For October, as it was the first month this was calculated, and biblioblogs were still being added at the end of the month, the rankings were calculated from either one or an average of two weeks’ data.]
Although Alexa provides data for each blog on a blog-server (Biblioblogs, WordPress, etc), it does not break down data for any blogs that appear as subdirectories on other websites. Where the blog is central to the website, this has been included in the rankings without making any adjustments to prorate results. Where the blog is incidental to the main website (e.g. Prime Time Jesus on bible.org, The View from Jerusalem at uhl.ac), the results have been omitted entirely. If you have any suggestions for doing any of this differently, suggest away.
If you think a blog should have been included, but hasn’t, please note the blog’s URL, name, and the blog authors’ names in the comments below, or email to biblioblogtop50 [at] yahoo [dot] com . However, please first check to see if it appears on the Biblioblogs page.
In Biblical Studies the ability to write meaningful pieces that only you and, maybe, one other person in the world understand is the zenith of achievement. The Biblioblog Top 50 is thus no indication of the worth or otherwise of the blogs involved. As Jesus the Galilean once said, “Οὕτως ἔσονται οἱ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι καὶ οἱ πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι” [“So long and thanks for all the fish” – Google Translator].
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