Biblioblog Top 50 – December 2010 – By Sexiness

Welcome to the Biblioblog Top 50 for December 2010 – your guide to the very sexiest in biblical studies blogging.

The (original) Biblioblog Top 50 provides the only objective measure of the top 50 biblical studies blogs. That’s because we use The Jouissance-meter, designed by Lacan himself in the early 1970s, and accurate to twelve decimal places. No longer will we have to rely on the subjective whimsies of dodgy hit-counters,  or on the elitism and auto-eroticism of bibliobloggers voting for themselves, or on some mystical determination of top biblioblogs by use of Urim and Thummim. The Biblioblog Top 50 provides biblioblog readers with assured results, every time.

Do you want to know, objectively, the very hottest of hot biblioblogs? Well, now you can. Objectively.

Here is the Biblioblog Top 50 for December 2010:

		Blogger	Blog Name	Hot reading:
1		Daniel O. McClellan	Daniel O. McClellan	The SBL’s attack on student members
2		Jim Davila	PaleoJudaica	Jim’s Christmas Day post
3		Bob Cargill	XKV8TR	Spanking Mark Driscoll
4		Roland Boer	Stalin’s Moustache	Mutual masturbation in biblical studies
5		Thomas Verenna	Musings of Thomas Verenna, The	The War on Christmas
6		Rodney A. Thomas	Political Jesus	Rod’s question about Calvinist theology and racial inclusivity
7		Larry Tanner	Textuality	Review of  How to Read the Bible by James Kugel
8		Michael Barber, Brant Pitre, John Bergsma	The Sacred Page	A Dead Sea Scroll / Jesus parallel
9		Steve A. Wiggins	Sects and Violence in the Ancient World	Steve explains religion
10		Deane Galbraith, Craig Martin, et al	Religion Bulletin	Jesus has breasts
11		Antonio Lombatti	Pseudoscienze cristiane antiche e medievali
12		Mark Goodacre	NT Weblog / NT Pod / NT Gateway
13		James McGrath	Exploring Our Matrix
14		Jim West	Jim West
15		Gavin Rumney	Otagosh
16		Duane Smith	Abnormal Interests
17		Loren Rosson	The Busybody
18		Sonja, Megan, et al	Women in Theology
19		T.C. Robinson	New Leaven
20		Tsalampouni Ekaterini	Ιστολόγιο βιβλικών σπουδών / Biblical Studies Blog
21		Tim Bulkeley	Sansblogue
22		Doug Chaplin	Clayboy
23		J.R. Daniel Kirk	Storied Theology
24		James Crossley, et al	Sheffield Biblical Studies
25		R. Joseph Hoffmann	The New Oxonian
26		John Hobbins	Ancient Hebrew Poetry
27		Jim Linville	Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room
28		Chris Brady	Targuman
29		Robert J. Myles	Jesus the Bum
30		Michael Carden	Jottings
31		Timo S. Paananen	Salainen evankelista
32		Aric Clark, et al	Two Friars and a Fool
33		Charles Halton	Awilum
34		Simon Holloway	Davar Akher
35		Airton José da Silva	Observatório Bíblico
36		Douglas Mangum	Biblia Hebraica et Graeca
37		Joel Watts, et al	Unsettled Christianity
38		Mike Aubrey	In Ephesus / ἐν ἐφέσῳ
39		Cláudia Andréa Prata Ferreira	Estudos Bíblicos
40		Judith Weingarten	Zenobia: Empress of the East
41		Rachel Barenblat	Velveteen Rabbi
42		Dan Oudshoorn	On Journeying with those in Exile
43		Owen Chesnut	Roses and Razorwire
44		April DeConick	The Forbidden Gospels
45		Michael W. Halcomb	Pisteuomen
46		Scott Bailey	Scotteriology
47		Claude Mariottini	Claude Mariottini
48		Adam Kotsko	An und für sich
49		Johannes Weiss	Apocalyptic Blog, The
50		Tony Burke	Apocryphicity

Daniel McClellan: No. 1 Biblioblogger of the Month for December 2010

Updated Biblioblog List, Search Engine, Carnival List

In eager anticipation of the return of the (One True) Biblioblog Top 50, we have updated the Complete List of Biblioblogs, the Search Engine List, and (because the existing one was a year out of date) the Biblical Studies Carnival List.

The Biblioblog Top 50 minions wish you all a Happy New Year!

Biblioblog Top 50 to Recommence … With a Twist

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Prompted by recent vitriolic debate among bibliobloggers, the Biblioblog Top 50 will recommence from the month of December 2010.

However, the new measure of the Top 50 will not be anything so subjective as “rankings” calculated by some shady hit-counting site yet to be exposed by Wikileaks. Instead, our new measure of the Top 50 Biblioblogs will according to our Jouissance-Meter.

The Biblioblog Jouissance-Meter will rank the Top 50 Biblioblogs each month according to the following objective standards: cutting-edge research, side-splitting humor, a high ratio of stimulating : boring-as-shit posts, well-aimed profanity/swearing, shit-stirring radicalism, startling innovation, timely scoops, risk-taking, and overall sexiness.

Moreover, biblioblogs must at least meet a minimum standard, as measured by these criteria, to even get a listing in the Top 50. If we can’t find 50 biblioblogs with sufficient jouissance, the monthly Top 50 just won’t have 50 blogs.

Look out for the next Biblioblog Top 50 on January 1!

Reading the Bible is sexy, Kids!