It’s the Biblioblog Top 50 - for the month of March 2009!
The Biblioblog Top 50 ranks each biblical studies blog, or ‘biblioblog’, by the total number of unique visitors it receives each month.
We have a new Number One Biblioblogger this month…
Dr. Jim West
Among the big shakers and movers for the month of March 2009 are:
- Alan Lenzi (at Bible and Ancient Near East), who has been trying very hard to make the Top 50 for a while now, and we imagine will be so pleased that he has got there; up 39 places to no. 36
- Tyler F. Williams (Codex), who posted extensively on U2′s new album, up 45 places to no. 14
- Chris Zeichmann, et al (Thoughts on Antiquity), up 67 places to no. 20
- James Crossley (Earliest Christian History), up 44 places to no. 25
- Jim Davila (PaleoJudaica), who [might have] broke[n] the big news of the month, the Raphael Golb story [Jim West claims that Robert Cargill broke the story, while Robert Cargill claims he first read it on Jim West's blog - see the comments section] up 32 places to no. 33
- Stephen L. Cook (Biblische Ausbildung), up 37 places to no. 37
- Jim Darlack (Old in the New), up 41 places to no. 40
Additions and changes to the Biblioblog List:
We thought we had discovered the sexiest and most stylish blog in biblioblogdom, which of course belonged to a Frenchman: Michael Langlois‘s biblioblog on the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew Bible, and Hebrew. But then we found Helen Ingram’s smoking new blog, delightfully named The Omega Course, which discusses Jesus and Magic – that is, when she’s not playing Metallica’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ on a church organ. Elsewhere, John Anderson – whose PhD studies are on Genesis – began blogging in March at Hesed we ʾemet. We also learned that Dorothy M. Peters blogs on the Trinity Western website, Barry Bandstra blogs at biblicaltext dot org, and Thomas blogs on Galatians in Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians. Also, David Stark has recently begun a blog on the Synoptic problem at New Testament Interpretation. I’ve included Tim Lewis, from Source Theory, who posts once every month or so on the Synoptics. And after a blogging hiatus of 3-and-a-half years, Seth L. Sanders reappeared in January examining the Hebrew Bible on Serving the Word. Also returning is J.K. Gayle, on The WOMBman’s Bible (looking at those wacky Greek translations of the Jewish scriptures) and Aristotle’s Feminist Subject (looking at many things, but always looking at them a little askew). Lastly, farewell to John Lyons (Reception of the Bible): Some are born and some are dying; It’s Alpha’s and Omega’s Kingdom come.
Here’s the full list of the Top 50 Biblioblogs for March 2009:
| Rank | Prev. | + / - | Blogger | Blog Name |
| 1 | 8 | 7 | Jim West | Jim West |
| 2 | 1 | -1 | Ben Witherington | Ben Witherington |
| 3 | 2 | -1 | James McGrath | Exploring Our Matrix |
| 4 | 5 | 1 | Joel L. Watts | The Church of Jesus Christ |
| 5 | 6 | 1 | Airton José da Silva | Observatório Bíblico |
| 6 | 4 | -2 | Michael S. Heiser | The Naked Bible, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Scribal Practices, Two Powers in Heaven |
| 7 | 13 | 6 | John Hobbins | Ancient Hebrew Poetry |
| 8 | 10 | 2 | Thomas Verenna | The Musings of Thomas Verenna |
| 9 | 9 | - | Tommy Wasserman, et al | Evangelical Textual Criticism |
| 10 | 11 | 1 | Nick Norelli | Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth |
| 11 | 27 | 16 | Claude Mariottini | Claude Mariottini |
| 12 | 3 | -9 | Mark Goodacre | NT Blog |
| 13 | 26 | 13 | Phil Harland | Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean |
| 14 | 59 | 45 | Tyler F. Williams | Codex |
| 15 | 17 | 2 | Chris Tilling | Chrisendom |
| 16 | 16 | - | Dave Black | Dave Black Online |
| 17 | 18 | 1 | Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts | ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion |
| 18 | 23 | 5 | Rick Brannan | Ricoblog |
| 19 | 42 | 23 | Scott Bailey | Scotteriology |
| 20 | 87 | 67 | Chris Zeichmann, et al | Thoughts on Antiquity |
| 21 | 33 | 12 | Rod Decker | NT Resources Blog |
| 22 | 12 | -10 | Daniel and Tonya | Hebrew and Greek Reader |
| 23 | 55 | 32 | Mike Aubrey | ἐν ἐφέσῳ / In Ephesus |
| 24 | 50 | 26 | Brandon Wason, Jim West, John Hobbins | Biblioblogs |
| 25 | 69 | 44 | James Crossley | Earliest Christian History |
| 26 | 30 | 4 | Chris Heard | Higgaion |
| 27 | 44 | 17 | Michael Pitkowsky | Menachem Mendel |
| 28 | 20 | -8 | April DeConick | Forbidden Gospels Blog |
| 29 | 61 | 32 | Edward Cook | Ralph the Sacred River |
| 30 | 19 | -11 | Stephen C. Carlson | Hypotyposeis |
| 31 | 15 | -16 | Chris Brady | Targuman |
| 32 | 41 | 9 | Duane Smith | Abnormal Interests |
| 33 | 65 | 32 | Jim Davila | PaleoJudaica |
| 34 | 63 | 29 | Roland Boer | Stalin’s Moustache |
| 35 | 36 | 1 | Bibbiablog guys | Bibbiablog |
| 36 | 75 | 39 | Alan Lenzi | Bible and Ancient Near East |
| 37 | 84 | 47 | Stephen L. Cook | Biblische Ausbildung |
| 38 | 28 | -10 | Tim Bulkeley | Sansblogue |
| 39 | 64 | 25 | Ken Brown | C. Orthodoxy |
| 40 | 81 | 41 | Jim Darlack | Old in the New |
| 41 | 48 | 7 | Charles Savelle Garland | Bible X |
| 42 | 58 | 16 | Kevin A. Wilson | Blue Cord |
| 43 | 31 | -12 | DLC | Balashon |
| 44 | 24 | -20 | Loren Rosson | The Busybody |
| 45 | 40 | -5 | Charles Halton | Awilum |
| 46 | 62 | 16 | Jim Getz | Ketuvim |
| 47 | 46 | -1 | Douglas Mangum | Biblia Hebraica |
| 48 | 29 | -19 | Darrell Pursiful | Dr. Platypus |
| 49 | 79 | 30 | Michael Barber, Brant Pitre | Singing in the Reign |
| 50 | 88 | 38 | Matt Page | Bible Films Blog |
Some technical info on how the stats are calculated is included here.
