Biblioblog Top 50 – December 2009

Ya know, nothing ever gets done properly unless you go and do it yourself! It seems that Jim West and his phantom minions have pissed off completely. (Although, that has nothing on what Jim West did to John Loftus, the latter having claimed that, during the month of December, Jim “literally pissed me off.” That Jim West must have some extraordinarily high water pressure going on there.)

Yet fortunately for you, this month I had a moment to spare from my important ecclesiastical duties. So here is The Biblioblog Top 50 for December 2009.

Number One for the tenth month in a row (and it will be his last) is Jim “Totally Depraved” West. I could mention the various rises and falls, but that’s boring. Instead, I’ve noted your theological leanings, organized according to the categories of “Very Conservative” (15), ”Conservative” (15), ”Orthodox” (12), ”Liberal” (6), and “Radical” (2). 

Bless you all.

Rank	Prev.	+ / -	Blogger	Blog Name	Theological Leaning	Alexa Ranking
1	1	-	Jim West	Jim West	Orthodox	59,934
2	2	-	Joel L. Watts	Church of Jesus Christ, The	Very conservative	69,168
3	8	5	John Loftus	Debunking Christianity	Liberal	147,114
4	5	1	Dave Black	Dave Black Online	Very conservative	209,763
5	7	2	James McGrath	Exploring Our Matrix	Liberal	220,129
6	15	9	Jeff Oien	Scripture Zealot	Very conservative	255,001
7	9	2	Henry Neufeld	Participatory Bible Study Blog	Conservative	274,395
8	4	-4	Jeremy Thompson	Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog	Orthodox	276,615
9	3	-6	Matt Dabbs	Kingdom Living	Very conservative	333,271
10	12	2	Ferrell Jenkins	Ferrell’s Travel Blog	Very conservative	381,039
11	10	-1	Stephen Smuts	Biblical Paths	Very conservative	388,625
12	19	7	Scott Bailey	Scotteriology	Orthodox	436,759
13	18	5	Pat McCullough	Kata ta biblia	Orthodox	449,282
14	13	-1	T.C. Robinson	New Leaven	Conservative	454,380
15	29	14	Nick Norelli	Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth	Very conservative	463,077
16	27	11	Daniel O. McClellan	Maklelan	Conservative	465,804
17	6	-11	Peter M. Lopez	Beauty of the Bible	Very conservative	505,199
18	14	-4	Brandon Wason	Sitz im Leben	Conservative	514,458
19	28	9	Chris Brady	Targuman	Orthodox	520,516
20	16	-4	Mark Goodacre	NT Blog	Liberal	523,127
21	17	-4	Eric Repphun, et al	Dunedin School, The	Radical	528,748
22	31	9	John Hobbins	Ancient Hebrew Poetry	Conservative	547,683
23	11	-12	Jim Linville	Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room	Liberal	604,699
24	30	6	Doug Chaplin	Clay Boy	Orthodox	608,010
25	41	16	Neil Godfrey	Vridar	Liberal	635,982
26	32	6	Airton José da Silva	Observatório Bíblico	Orthodox	654,257
27	23	-4	Jim Getz	Ketuvim	Liberal	680,688
28	22	-6	Michael S. Heiser	Naked Bible, The, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Every Thought Captive	Very conservative	746,723
29	58	29	Jason	Eis Doxan	Conservative	788,331
30	21	-9	Karyn Traphagen	Boulders 2 Bits	Orthodox	820,174
31	53	22	Rachel Marszalek	Re-vis.e Re-form	Orthodox	832,432
32	40	8	Chris Heard	Higgaion	Orthodox	844,662
33	45	12	Peter J. Leithart	Leithart.com	Very conservative	846,088
34	59	25	Nijay K. Gupta	Nijay K. Gupta	Orthodox	896,945
35	49	14	David Ker, et al	Better Bibles Blog	Very conservative	923,838
36	68	32	Douglas Mangum	Biblia Hebraica	Orthodox	927,477
37	37	-	Josh  Mann	For the Sake of Truth	Very conservative	945,563
38	35	-3	Michael W. Halcomb	Pisteuomen	Conservative	975,557
39	36	-3	Tommy Wasserman, et al	Evangelical Textual Criticism	Conservative	991,419
40	34	-6	Roland Boer	Stalin’s Moustache	Radical	1,013,939
41	33	-8	Daniel and Tonya	Hebrew and Greek Reader	Conservative	1,023,321
42	26	-16	Rick Mansfield	This Lamp	Conservative	1,091,036
43	57	14	Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts	ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion	Very conservative	1,111,968
44	38	-6	Chris Tilling	Chrisendom	Conservative	1,122,387
45	82	37	Joel M. Hoffman	God Didn’t Say That: Bible Translations and Mistranslations	Very conservative	1,170,917
46	86	40	Art Boulet	Finitum Non Capax Infiniti	Conservative	1,187,781
47	73	26	Michael Barber, Brant Pitre & John Bergsma	Sacred Page, The	Conservative	1,191,256
48	83	35	Mike Koke	Golden Rule, The	Conservative	1,220,353
49	69	20	Brian Fulthrop	συνεσταυρωμαι: Living The Crucified Life	Conservative	1,223,268
50	48	-2	Claude Mariottini	Claude Mariottini	Very conservative	1,270,013

Your friend,
Bishop N. T. Wrong
Durham, North Carolina

Lists

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“I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia.”

- Umberto Eco, Der Spiegel, Nov 11, 2009

The Top Fifty Ancient Jewish and Christian Books

After extensive deliberations, The Council for the Top Fifty Ancient Jewish and Christian Books (TCTFAJCB) has revealed its choices for the Top Fifty Ancient Jewish and Christian Books, for your perusal and betterment. Here they are:

1	Job
2	Gospel of John
3	Ecclesiastes
4	Revelation of John
5	1 Enoch
6	Gospel of Mark
7	Homily on the Passion (Melito)
8	Jewish War (Josephus)
9	On the Creation (Philo)
10	Odes of Solomon
11	Apocryphon of John
12	2 Maccabees
13	Ascension of Isaiah
14	Song of Solomon
15	Life of Adam and Eve
16	On the Contemplative Life (Philo)
17	Jonah
18	Daniel
19	The Instructor (Clement of Alexandria)
20	Testaments of the 12 Patriarchs
21	Against Heresies (Irenaeus)
22	The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity
23	Acts of the Apostles
24	Gospel of Thomas
25	Samuel
26	Gospel of Batholomew
27	Against Celsus (Origen)
28	Dialogue with Trypho (Justin Martyr)
29	4 Ezra
30	Testament of Solomon
31	Genesis
32	2 Enoch
33	Damascus Document
34	Antiquities (Josephus)
35	On the Eternity of the World (Philo)
36	Testament of Job
37	Abot
38	Tobit
39	Acts of Peter
40	The Shepherd (Hermas)
41	Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice
42	Gospel of Truth
43	Numbers
44	Ezekiel
45	Judges
46	Jeremiah
47	Psalms
48	Pseudo-Clementine  Recognitions
49	Exagogue
50	Jubilees

We hope you will enjoy reading these works as much as we have enjoyed selecting them.

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