Biblioblog Top 50 – August 2009

It’s the Biblioblog Top 50 - for the month of August 2009!

The Biblioblog Top 50 ranks each biblical studies blog, or “biblioblog,” by the total traffic or “hits” it receives each month.

The Number 1 Biblioblogger this month is the indefatigable… the irrepressible…

Jim West, who has owned the Number 1 slot for six straight months!

 

So who are the shakers and movers in biblical studies blogging for the month of August 2009? In a burst of zealotry, Jeff Oien (Scripture Zealot) leaped 36 places to third place this month, while Daniel and Tonya (Hebrew and Greek Reader) rose 8 places to fourth. Josh Mann (For the Sake of Truth) rose 41 places to No. 17, and Douglas Mangum (Biblia Hebraica), who has being trying to stay away from the biblioblogosphere but just couldn’t do it, rose 56 places to No. 30. The highest new entry was Ferrell Jenkins, who was reclassified from Related Blogs to a biblioblog, listing at No. 5. The Dunedin School’s new group blog was at No. 31, while Daniel O. McClellan (previously of Maklelan) registered his first Top 50 place, at No. 36.

And without further ado, here are the Top 50 Biblioblogs, complete with runners-up, for August 2009:

[Update: We have been advised of two blogs which should be included amongst the biblioblogs based on their current content, rather than amongst the related blogs: Ferrell Jenkins' Ferrell’s Travel Blog and Robert Cargill's The Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill. We agree. So these two blogs have been included in the Top 50 listings.]

Rank	Prev.	+ / -	Blogger	Blog Name	Ranking
1	1	-	Jim West	Jim West	98,615
2	2	-	Joel L. Watts	The Church of Jesus Christ	144,570
3	39	36	Jeff Oien	Scripture Zealot	272,363
4	12	8	Daniel and Tonya	Hebrew and Greek Reader	289,274
5	-	-	Ferrell Jenkins	Ferrell’s Travel Blog	329,103
6	9	3	Scott Bailey	Scotteriology	348,961
7	4	-3	Peter M. Lopez	Beauty of the Bible	355,259
8	8	-	Dave Black	Dave Black Online	371,096
9	10	1	Mark Goodacre	NT Blog	410,487
10	18	8	James McGrath	Exploring Our Matrix	410,555
11	17	6	Nick Norelli	Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth	485,188
12	30	18	Michael S. Heiser	The Naked Bible, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Scribal Practices, Two Powers in Heaven	499,703
13	13	-	Airton José da Silva	Observatório Bíblico	513,732
14	16	2	John Hobbins	Ancient Hebrew Poetry	514,431
15	11	-4	Mike Whitenton	Ecce Homo	527,055
16	20	4	Brandon Wason	Sitz im Leben	534,005
17	58	41	Josh  Mann	For the Sake of Truth	595,478
18	21	3	T.C. Robinson	New Leaven	603,293
19	3	-16	V. Henry T. Nguyen	Punctuated Life	631,751
20	23	3	John Anderson	Hesed we ‘emet	693,941
21	15	-6	Doug Chaplin	Clay Boy	701,308
22	31	9	Jim Getz	Ketuvim	707,728
23	34	11	Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni	Ιστολόγιο βιβλικών σπουδών / Biblical Studies Blog	732,863
24	27	3	John Crawford, et al	Faith-Promoting Rumor	757,028
25	5	-20	Neil Godfrey	Vridar	757,776
26	38	12	Chris Tilling	Chrisendom	773,022
27	29	2	Stephen Smuts	Biblical Paths	781,146
28	28	-	Tommy Wasserman, et al	Evangelical Textual Criticism	784,260
29	6	-23	Mandy and Calvin Park	The Floppy Hat	792,579
30	86	56	Douglas Mangum	Biblia Hebraica	794,619
31	-	-	Various	The Dunedin School	796,528
32	43	11	Jim Davila	PaleoJudaica	831,849
33	52	19	Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts	ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion	838,566
34	24	-10	Chris Heard	Higgaion	878,074
35	-	-	Robert Cargill	The Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill	879,586
36	233	197	Daniel O. McClellan	Maklelan	915,396
37	70	33	Duane Smith	Abnormal Interests	927,161
38	22	-16	Tyler F. Williams	Codex	935,884
39	68	29	Mike Aubrey	ἐν ἐφέσῳ / In Ephesus	960,409
40	69	29	Charles Halton	Awilum	1,025,094
41	47	6	Andy Naselli	Thoughts on Exegetical, Biblical, Historical, Systematic, and Practical Theology	1,051,408
42	90	48	Rod Decker	NT Resources Blog	1,080,132
43	49	6	Jason	Eis Doxan	1,138,129
44	26	-18	Claude Mariottini	Claude Mariottini	1,214,962
45	164	119	David Hymes	Hebrew Scriptures and More …	1,268,706
46	92	46	Art Boulet	Finitum Non Capax Infiniti	1,292,662
47	50	3	Suzanne McCarthy	Suzanne’s Bookshelf	1,317,140
48	40	-8	Roland Boer	Stalin’s Moustache	1,383,495
49	37	-12	Peter J. Leithart	Leithart.com	1,397,850
50	64	14	Rachel Barenblat	Velveteen Rabbi	1,397,865
51	41	-10	Pat McCullough	Kata ta biblia	1,403,810
52	-	-	Con Campbell, et al	Read Better, Preach Better	1,407,615
53	101	48	Mike Koke	The Golden Rule	1,419,037
54	115	61	Alan Lenzi	Bible and Ancient Near East	1,444,992
55	125	70	Damian Caruana	Castle of Nutshells	1,462,628
56	63	7	Chris Brady	Targuman	1,477,494
57	76	19	Michael Barber, Brant Pitre	The Sacred Page	1,483,546
58	45	-13	Steve A. Wiggins	Sects and  Violence in the Ancient World	1,484,114
59	46	-13	Brian Fulthrop	συνεσταυρωμαι: Living The Crucified Life	1,491,798
60	136	76	Mark Goodacre	NT Pod	1,498,254
61	98	37	Stephen C. Carlson	Hypotyposeis	1,538,952
62	-	-	Rafael Sanz Carrera	Escritura Sagrada	1,605,546
63	67	4	April DeConick	Forbidden Gospels Blog	1,619,872
64	35	-29	Ken Brown	C. Orthodoxy	1,657,098
65	129	64	Rob Bradshaw	Biblical Studies	1,672,092
66	71	5	Rick Brannan	Ricoblog	1,681,086
67	131	64	Peter Bekins	בלשנות / Balshanut	1,712,906
68	75	7	G. Brooke Lester	Anumma	1,726,786
69	87	18	Jim Linville	Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room	1,738,739
70	96	26	Daniel J. Doleys	Text, Community & Mission	1,746,023
71	202	131	Richard Sherrat	YHWH Melek / יהוה מלך	1,758,200
72	93	21	David Ker, et al	Better Bibles Blog	1,758,570
73	36	-37	Antonio Lombatti	Pseudoscienze cristiane antiche e medievali	1,771,056
74	62	-12	Tim Bulkeley	Sansblogue	1,772,297
75	156	81	Charles Savelle	Bible X	1,775,836
76	84	8	Kevin Sam	New Epistles	1,778,106
77	32	-45	Matthew Burgess	Confessions of a Bible Junkie	1,815,072
78	160	82	Phillip Marshall	Biblical Languages	1,842,623
79	175	96	Chip Hardy	Daily Hebrew	1,849,583
80	33	-47	Mark Stevens	Scripture, Ministry, and the People of God	1,850,526
81	25	-56	Robert C. Kashow	Tolle Lege!	1,883,398
82	100	18	Andreas Kostenberger	Biblical Foundations	1,897,335
83	54	-29	A K M Adam	AKMA’s Random Thoughts	1,898,477
84	81	-3	DLC	Balashon	1,901,653
85	55	-30	Aaron Rathburn	Theology & Culture	1,908,480
86	103	17	Darrell Pursiful	Dr. Platypus	1,915,147
87	142	55	Michael Metts	Michael Metts	1,927,139
88	53	-35	Loren Rosson	The Busybody	1,932,060
89	72	-17	James Tabor	Tabor Blog	1,959,372
90	42	-48	Thomas Verenna	The Musings of Thomas Verenna	1,978,652
91	-	-	Michael Pahl	The Stuff of Earth	1,980,102
92	134	42	Ben Blackwell	Dunelm Road	2,039,975
93	19	-74	CD-Host	Church Discipline	2,040,469
94	59	-35	Ben Byerly	Ben Byerly	2,040,826
95	150	55	Stephen Hebert	Withering Fig	2,045,675
96	51	-45	Matt Evans	Broadcast Depth	2,045,743
97	80	-17	Michael J. Gorman	Cross Talk	2,052,973
98	105	7	Esteban Vázquez	Voice of Stefan	2,058,625
99	83	-16	Tim Ricchuiti	If I Were a Bell I’d Ring	2,077,138
100	127	27	Chris Zeichmann, et al	Thoughts on Antiquity	2,099,088
101	168	67	Matthew D. Montonini	New Testament Perspectives	2,110,854
102	107	5	Matthew R. Malcolm	Crypto-Theology	2,120,598
103	97	-6	Renita J. Weems	Something Within.com	2,147,584
104	56	-48	Bill Mounce	Bill Mounce . com	2,244,173
105	123	18	Michael Carden	Jottings	2,283,388
106	74	-32	Adam Couturier	Mishlei Adam / משלי אדם	2,364,129
107	110	3	Celucien L. Joseph	Christ, My Righteousness	2,491,879
108	57	-51	Sheffield PhDer	Metalepsis	2,511,157
109	116	7	James Pate	James’ Thoughts and Musings	2,524,077
110	61	-49	Michael W. Halcomb	Pisteuomen	2,570,261
111	170	59	James Tabor	The Jesus Dynasty	2,687,590
112	126	14	David J. Larsen	Heavenly Ascents	2,715,049
113	130	17	Danny Zacharias	Deinde	2,722,070
114	79	-35	James Crossley	Earliest Christian History	2,738,815
115	155	40	C. Jay Crisostomo	mu-pàd-da	2,774,395
116	44	-72	Daniel Kirk	Sibboleth	2,809,640
117	132	15	Bryan L	The Art of Procrastination	2,851,804
118	192	74	Richard Sherrat	תהלים / Tehilim	2,854,671
119	88	-31	Matt Page	Bible Films Blog	3,115,334
120	108	-12	Peter Enns	Peter Enns	3,125,443
121	78	-43	Bryan Bibb	Hevel.org: A Chasing after Wind	3,174,686
122	120	-2	Deirdre Good	On Not Being a Sausage	3,197,794
123	139	16	Edward Cook	Ralph the Sacred River	3,209,252
124	66	-58	Kevin Scull	Paul of Tarsus	3,394,257
125	133	8	Bob MacDonald	Bob’s Log	3,410,818
126	73	-53	Ken Schenck	Quadrilateral Thoughts	3,429,246
127	118	-9	Alan Bandy	Café Apocalypsis	3,507,189
128	200	72	Jeffrey García	חלק טוב: Helek Tov	3,510,364
129	-	-	James Harding	Calvinolatry	3,528,298
130	111	-19	J. P. van de Giessen	Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel	3,561,677
131	145	14	Michael Helfield	Toshunka	3,598,877
132	99	-33	David M. Miller	Ger Vatoshav	3,620,105
133	102	-31	Steve Runge	NT Discourse	3,645,790
134	77	-57	John Hobbins, et al	Bibbiablog	3,696,629
135	171	36	Phil Sumpter	Narrative and Ontology	3,703,591
136	113	-23	Rodney A. Thomas	Political Jesus	3,703,609
137	154	17	Bob MacDonald	Sufficiency	3,706,587
138	-	-	David Parker	Editing the Gospel of John	3,775,477
139	179	40	Josh McManaway	Son of the Fathers	3,777,319
140	48	-92	Phil Harland	Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean	3,909,765
141	104	-37	Andrew Bernhard	Gospels.net	3,914,857
142	-	-	Arne Berge	Arne Berge	3,955,076
143	184	41	Brian LePort	Near Emmaus: Christ and Text	4,082,831
144	109	-35	Nathan Stitt	Discipulus Scripturae	4,083,703
145	176	31	Martin Shields	Shields Up	4,175,151
146	122	-24	Chuck Grantham	A ‘Goula Blogger	4,259,617
147	128	-19	Manuel Rojas	Estudios Bíblicos	4,345,700
148	114	-34	Jared Calaway	Antiquitopia	4,482,858
149	119	-30	Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira	Estudos Bíblicos	4,638,993
150	188	38	Bill Heroman	Bible/History Blog	4,850,847
151	141	-10	Stephen L. Cook	Biblische Ausbildung	4,910,100
152	182	30	Karyn Traphagen	Boulders 2 Bits	4,985,270
153	161	8	Frank Bellizzi	Frankly Speaking	4,989,447
154	167	13	Johannes Weiss	The Apocalyptic Blog	5,215,614
155	124	-31	Stephen Huller	Stephan Huller’s observations	5,224,414
156	95	-61	Barry Bandstra	biblicaltext dot org	5,394,633
157	217	60	Anthony Loke	Old testament passion	5,434,801
158	210	52	Karl Möller	Biblical Studies Notebook (BSN)	5,513,211
159	157	-2	Matt Harmon	Biblical Theology	5,548,383
160	199	39	David Bokovoy	David Bokovoy	5,665,227
161	230	69	Gary Manning	Eutychus	5,665,727
162	209	47	Matthew Lanser	Havel Havalim	5,722,553
163	149	-14	J. C. Baker	J. C. Baker	5,861,969
164	204	40	Timo S. Paananen	Salainen evankelista	6,054,169
165	211	46	Clifford Kvidahl	Theological Musings	6,063,450
166	112	-54	Michael Pitkowsky	Menachem Mendel	6,171,375
167	65	-102	Julia M. O’Brien	Julia M. O’Brien	6,315,129
168	173	5	Timothy McCormick	Catholic Bibles	6,351,314
169	146	-23	Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira	Língua Hebraica	6,542,590
170	60	-110	Nijay K. Gupta	Nijay K. Gupta	6,611,340
171	-	-	Qohelet	The Bible Critic	6,698,138
172	89	-83	Michael Thompson	Grasshoppers dreaming	6,698,449
NA	197	NA	Steve Rives	Jesus, Archaeology, Theology and the Bible	6,769,285
174	165	-9	The Hyrax	Holy Hyrax	6,817,466
175	201	26	Brian Small	Polumeros kai Polutropos	6,817,721
176	106	-70	David Ashford	Bite My Bible	6,979,907
177	198	21	Mike Fox	Fox’s Wanderings	7,160,915
178	-	-	Phillip Long	Reading Acts	7,187,247
179	94	-85	Jimmy Doyle	jkdoyle.com	7,250,560
180	138	-42	David Stark	New Testament Interpretation	7,266,675
181	213	32	Jacobo Jovan Payes	Biblical Faith	7,312,373
182	143	-39	Eric B. Sowell	Archaic Christianity	7,403,787
183	218	35	Jane Stranz	Of life, laughter and liturgy . . .	7,534,671
184	144	-40	Greg Carey	NTGeeks	7,670,864
185	-	-	Peter Carrell	Hermeneutics and Human Dignity	7,686,551
186	177	-9	Perng Shyang Teng	Unworthy Sinner	8,346,676
187	162	-25	Rafael	Verily, Verily	8,474,611
188	166	-22	Stefan Green	Exegetisk Teologi	8,535,969
189	178	-11	Benjamin	TorahBlogga	8,751,777
190	135	-55	Helen Ingram	The Omega Course	9,237,901
191	174	-17	Tony Siew	Revelation is Real	9,529,293
192	228	36	Lao Shi (Jennifer ) Chiou	邱老師網誌 Chioulaoshi Blog	9,813,738
193	187	-6	Various	The Guild of Biblical Minimalists	9,819,023
194	147	-47	David P. Melvin	בית דוד / byt dwd	9,821,641
195	215	20	Jin Yang Kim	Old Testament Story	9,886,565
196	189	-7	Klaas Spronk	Klaas Spronk’s Weblog	9,926,889
197	158	-39	Anon	Dilettante Hobby Horse Biblioblog	9,988,486
198	186	-12	Ian Millington	New Testament Math	10,022,595
199	85	-114	Jim Darlack	Old in the New	10,022,822
200	140	-60	Bryan Lilly	ΚΑΤΑΓΡΑΦΑΙΣ / Katagraphais	10,120,916
201	153	-48	Ruth P. Martin	The Pioneers’ New Testament	11,015,409
202	172	-30	Levi	Blah Blah Blah	11,018,996
203	151	-52	J. Brian Tucker	Identity Formation in the New Testament	11,048,684
204	152	-52	Rick Brannan	Pastoral Epistles	11,069,504
205	-	-	R. Joseph Hoffmann	R. Joseph Hoffmann, Hys Blogge	11,075,905
206	121	-85	David Ritsema	New Testament Studies Blog	11,144,857
207	137	-70	Jon S	The Theological Ramblings of an Anglican Ordinand	11,218,719
208	233	25	Vlad	Text and Theology	11,289,231
209	159	-50	Theophyle	Theophyle’s English Blog	11,548,743
210	163	-47	Torrey Seland	Philonica et Neotestamentica	11,556,574
211	233	22	Brenda Heyink	Joining in the Conversation	11,574,458
212	212	-	Matthew Barnes	In the Corner with Matt	11,601,374
213	233	20	Peter M. Head	Letter Carriers and the Pauline Tradition	11,806,385
214	82	-132	Emanuel Pfoh, et al	European Association of Biblical Studies	11,847,185
215	190	-25	Rich S	An Exegete Reflects	11,880,516
216	195	-21	Various	Christian Feminism	12,034,989
217	148	-69	Judy Redman	Judy’s research blog	12,131,205
218	169	-49	Thomas	Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians	12,420,737
219	117	-102	Mike DeVries	Awakening	13,067,811
220	224	4	Luciano Costa	Veritas Omnia Vincit	13,581,096
221	229	8	D. Christopher Spinks	katagrapho	13,850,403
222	232	10	Tim Lewis	Source Theory	13,860,251
223	203	-20	Sean and Eddie	Primal Subversion	13,881,902
224	233	9	John Ottens	Speculative Hermeneutics	13,883,420
225	181	-44	Michael Samuel	Rabbi Michael Samuel	14,300,969
226	219	-7	Simon Holloway	Davar Akher / דבר אחר	15,221,903
227	220	-7	Leo Quix	The Quixotic Infidel	15,314,772
228	233	5	Michael Langlois	Michael Langlois	15,525,536
229	216	-13	Marvin Lance Wiser	Stories of Expatriation & Maturation	15,617,922
230	180	-50	Flávio Souza, et al	Ad Cummulus	15,814,110
231	227	-4	Jesse Griffin	OT Prof	17,861,123
232	208	-24	P. W. Dunn, Jeremy Barrier, Annette Merz, Cathy Dunn	Acta Pauli	18,446,488
233	194	-39	James McGrath	The Burial of Jesus	20,464,001
234	214	-20	Lisa, White Bear Girl aka Sophie Clucker	Bible Study Connection	20,829,793
235	226	-9	Alan Lenzi, ed.	Biblical Scholars and Personal Religion	20,829,800
236	206	-30	Megan Rohrer	Transcript	22,678,458
237	183	-54	J R Coffer	A Cruz de Clio	24,584,933
238	221	-17	Michael L. Satlow	Michael L. Satlow – Blog and Podcasts	28,008,092
239	222	-17	Ardel Caneday	Biblia Theologia	28,093,372
240	223	-17	John Brentlinger	RevJohn	28,365,921
241	185	-56	Andrew Rozalowsky	A Living Sacrifice	50,000,000
242	233	-9	Jan Krans, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Arie Zwiep, Martin de Boer	Amsterdam NT Weblog	50,000,000
243	191	-52	Julio Cesar Chaves	Apocrypha Gnostica	50,000,000
244	193	-51	Tony Burke	Apocryphicity	50,000,000
245	233	-12	Simon Woodman	Baptist Bookworm	50,000,000
246	205	-41	Mark Alterman	Biblical Research	50,000,000
247	233	-14	Richard H. Anderson	Dokeo kago grapho soi kratistos	50,000,000
248	233	-15	Various	Eksegeettinen safari	50,000,000
249	233	-16	Nevada	Epiginoskein	50,000,000
250	233	-17	Benjamin Shaw	Gptsrabbi	50,000,000
251	233	-18	Drew Strait	Heilsgeschichte	50,000,000
252	233	-19	Rob G. Reid	Jesus and Empire: A Postcolonial Perspective	50,000,000
253	233	-20	Ben	Kilbabo	50,000,000
254	233	-21	Bob MacDonald	Matthew	50,000,000
255	-	-	Nathan J. Barnes	Nathan J. Barnes	50,000,000
256	231	-25	Elisée Ouoba,  P. W. Dunn, Moussa Bongoyok, Richard Houmegni, Abel Ngarsoulede, Cathy Dunn	Palabre	50,000,000
257	233	-24	Brett Berger, et al	Readmordedpeepl	50,000,000
258	233	-25	Jerry A., Seth L. Sanders	Serving the Word	50,000,000
259	196	-63	Patrick Woods	So Much For Straw	50,000,000
260	233	-27	Paul L. Beisel	Spiritus Gladius	50,000,000
NA	233	NA	Richard Sherrat	Tetrateuch	50,000,000
NA	233	NA	Leon Zitzer	The Historical Jesus	50,000,000
NA	NA	NA	Kim Hyung Uk	Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland	NA
NA	NA	NA	Maer dos Santos	Ancient Wisdom Today	NA
NA	NA	NA	Årstein Justnes	Årstein Justnes’ Blogg	NA
NA	NA	NA	Ben Witherington	Ben Witherington on the Bible and Culture	NA
NA	NA	NA	Todd Bolen	Bible Places	NA
NA	NA	NA	Antony Billington	Billington’s Blog	NA
NA	NA	NA	Darrell Bock	Bock’s Blog	NA
NA	NA	NA	Mark Waterman	Comments by Dr Marks	NA
NA	NA	NA	Altair	Depósito Teológico	NA
NA	NA	NA	Dorothy Peters	Dorothy Peters’ Trinity Western University Faculty Blog	NA
NA	NA	NA	?	Holyhillch	NA
NA	NA	NA	Gerardo Jofre	IEAB	NA
NA	NA	NA	Morten Beckmann Klepp	Mortens blogg	NA
NA	NA	NA	Craig Blomberg	New Testament Musings	NA
NA	NA	NA	Mark Goodacre	NT Gateway	NA
NA	NA	NA	Morten Beckmann Klepp and Årstein Justnes	Nytestamentlig fagforum	NA
NA	NA	NA	?	Path of Truth	NA
NA	NA	NA	Søren Holst	Pergament	NA
NA	NA	NA	Craig Blomberg, et al	Prime Time Jesus	NA
NA	NA	NA	Anders Aschim	Qumran.no	NA
NA	NA	NA	Robert Hulme	RobHu studies the Bible	NA
NA	NA	NA	James M. Kennedy	Seek and Read	NA
NA	NA	NA	Michael Burer	The Thinking Professor	NA
NA	NA	NA	Rick Mansfield	This Lamp	NA
287	NA	NA	Андрей Орлов (Andrei Orlov)	Андрей Орлов’s Journal	NA

 

There is some technical information about how the stats are calculated on the Technical Bits page.

 

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