The Biblioblog Top 50 ranks each biblical studies blog, or ‘biblioblog’, by the total number of unique visitors it receives each month.
The Number One Biblioblogger this month is… James McGrath at Exploring Our Matrix!
Among the big shakers and movers for the month of January 2009 are:
- Dave Black (Dave Black Online) – up 17 places to number 4;
- J. P. van de Giessen (Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel ) – up 62 places to number 10;
- Michael Barber and Brant Pitre (Singing in the Reign) – up 31 places to number 12;
- Kevin P. Edgecomb (Biblicalia) – up 40 places to number 14;
- Flávio Souza (Ad Cummulus) – up 48 places to number 19;
- Eric B. Sowell (Archaic Christianity) – up 102 places to number 22;
- Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira (Língua Hebraica ) – up 83 places to number 25;
- Rob Bradshaw (Biblical Studies) – up 65 places to number 26.
There are a number of new additions to the biblioblog list this month. Alan Bandy is back to the world of biblioblogging with the second coming of Café Apocalypsis, a New Testament blog. Brian Small began a specialist biblioblog on the book of Hebrews, Polumeros kai Polutropos, and he has been trying to work out who wrote it ever since (but surely it is clear that it comes from the hand of a young Valentinus?). James Tabor has commenced a new blog (Tabor Blog), restricting his earlier blog, The Jesus Dynasty to discussion of issues directly connected with his book of the same name. I also decided to add a couple of older blogs that have a fair bit of biblical studies material, such as John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive, Richard H. Anderson’s Dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos, and Leo Quix’s The Quixotic Infidel. And I have belatedly discovered Matthew Lanser’s Havel Havalim and Peter M. Lopez’s Beauty of the Bible. January sadly marked the end of the highly entertaining Guild of Biblical Minimalists blog (yet, did it ever exist?). Also sadly departed are J. K. Gayle (Aristotle’s Feminist Subject and, briefly, The Wombman’s Bible), ElShaddai Edwards (He Is Sufficient), and whoever Job’s female companion was (Voice of Iyov).
In addition, January saw the release of the first academic book about bibliobloggers:
James Crossley, Jesus in an Age of Terror: Scholarly Projects for a New American Century ( Equinox, 2008 )
Here is the complete list of this month’s Top 50 Bibliobloggers:
| Rank | Prev. | + / - | Blogger | Blog Name |
| 1 | 3 | 2 | James McGrath | Exploring Our Matrix |
| 2 | 2 | - | Mark Goodacre | NT Gateway Weblog |
| 3 | 6 | 3 | Airton José da Silva | Observatório Bíblico |
| 4 | 17 | 13 | Dave Black | Dave Black Online |
| 5 | 4 | -1 | Jim West | Jim West |
| 6 | 5 | -1 | Michael S. Heiser | The Naked Bible, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Scribal Practices, Two Powers in Heaven |
| 7 | 37 | 30 | Claude Mariottini | Claude Mariottini |
| 8 | 12 | 4 | Thomas Verenna | The Musings of Thomas Verenna |
| 9 | 1 | -8 | Ben Witherington | Ben Witherington |
| 10 | 72 | 62 | J. P. van de Giessen | Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel |
| 11 | 7 | -4 | Joel L. Watts | The Church of Jesus Christ |
| 12 | 43 | 31 | Michael Barber, Brant Pitre | Singing in the Reign |
| 13 | 13 | - | Ferrell Jenkins | Ferrell’s Travel Blog |
| 14 | 54 | 40 | Kevin P. Edgecomb | Biblicalia |
| 15 | 39 | 24 | Steve Runge | NT Discourse |
| 16 | 8 | -8 | Chris Tilling | Chrisendom |
| 17 | 36 | 19 | 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 |
| 18 | 44 | 26 | Nick Norelli | Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth |
| 19 | 67 | 48 | Flávio Souza | Ad Cummulus |
| 20 | - | - | John Shuck | Shuck and Jive |
| 21 | 41 | 20 | Chris Brady | Targuman |
| 22 | 124 | 102 | Eric B. Sowell | Archaic Christianity |
| 23 | 20 | -3 | Matt Page | Bible Films Blog |
| 24 | - | - | James Tabor | Tabor Blog |
| 25 | 108 | 83 | Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira | Língua Hebraica |
| 26 | 91 | 65 | Rob Bradshaw | Biblical Studies |
| 27 | 27 | - | Antonio Lombatti | Pseudoscienze cristiane antiche e medievali |
| 28 | 34 | 6 | Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts | ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion |
| 29 | 22 | -7 | Mike Aubrey | ἐν ἐφέσῳ / In Ephesus |
| 30 | 11 | -19 | John Hobbins | Ancient Hebrew Poetry |
| 31 | 31 | - | Rod Decker | NT Resources Blog |
| 32 | 64 | 32 | Neil Godfrey | Vridar |
| 33 | 51 | 18 | Dot Porter, Tom Elliott, Dan Diffendale, Ron Gorny, Eric Kansa, Melissa, noelbynature, Bill Caraher, Sebastian Heath, Neel Smith, david meadows, jps, Gabriel Bodard, leifuss, Judith Weingarten, Past Preservers, Uncle MythMan J, Michael E. Smith, Alun, Charles Ellwood Jones, Alexandra Trachsel, Simon Mahony, MEHDI MORTAZAVI, ClassicalWanderer, Mark Goodacre, G.W. Schwendner, jcbaker, Nathan T. Elkins, Nikolaos Markoulakis, englund, Duane Smith, Charles Watkinson, Christopher Heard, N.Duplain, Alan Lenzi, Andie, James F. McGrath, Brandon Wason, Shawn Graham, Hugh Cayless, Chris Weimer, Jim Davila, Antonio Lombatti, Ioannis Georganas, Kathrin Kleibl, David Gill | Ancient World Bloggers |
| 34 | 21 | -13 | Tim Bulkeley | Sansblogue |
| 35 | 10 | -25 | Tyler F. Williams | Codex |
| 36 | 14 | -22 | Daniel and Tonya | Hebrew and Greek Reader |
| 37 | 46 | 9 | Roland Boer | Stalin’s Moustache |
| 38 | 32 | -6 | Art Boulet | Finitum Non Capax Infiniti |
| 39 | 58 | 19 | ElShaddai Edwards | He is Sufficient |
| 40 | 87 | 47 | Loren Rosson | The Busybody |
| 41 | 61 | 20 | Douglas Mangum | Biblia Hebraica |
| 42 | 63 | 21 | Jim Getz | Ketuvim |
| 43 | 129 | 86 | Ken Schenck | Quadrilateral Thoughts |
| 44 | 120 | 76 | Anthony Loke | Old testament passion |
| 45 | 42 | -3 | Doug Chaplin | Metacatholic |
| 46 | 19 | -27 | Chris Heard | Higgaion |
| 47 | 45 | -2 | Duane Smith | Abnormal Interests |
| 48 | 28 | -20 | Rachel Barenblat | Velveteen Rabbi |
| 49 | 62 | 13 | Jim Darlack | Old in the New |
| 50 | 105 | 55 | C. Jay Crisostomo | mu-pàd-da |
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