January 2011 Top 10 Biblioblogs

We had more votes this time around, but I know there are a lot more of you out there who aren’t voting. Don’t be afraid.

Here’s your top 10 for last month, determined by you, the biblioblogging community. Since we did McGrath’s caricature last month, we’ll do #2 this month, the brooding Bob Cargill.

1. Exploring Our Matrix (James McGrath)
2. XKV8R (Bob Cargill)
3. Unsettled Christianity (Joel Watts)
4. Targuman (Chris Brady)
5. Paleojudaica (Jim Davila)
6. Storied Theology (J.D. Kirk)
7. Dr. Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room (Jim Linville)
8. New Leaven (T.C. Robinson)
9. The Forbidden Gospels (April DeConick)
10. Scientia et Sapientia (Marc Cortez)

You can send in your votes whenever you’d like to bibliobloggerstop10 ( @ ) yahoo.com. We’ll see you next time around.

(N. T. Wrong Approved) BiblioBlog Top 50 January 2011 (by Alexa Rank)

Well, I think this song probably encapsulates how most everyone is feeling:

That’s right … “Say it ain’t so” … You no longer get (are privileged/are blessed) to go to freeoldtestamentaudio.com to get your Biblioblog rankings.  But, just to make sure that I continue to get traffic for this.  I’m going to replace the link for each blog in the Biblioblog top 50 with a link to my website.  Oh wait a second … I’m not Joel.

As I said before, it’s been fun hosting this over at my place, but I originally took it on because it looked like this site was closing up shop.  Now, that this site is back up and running the rankings are back where they belong.  So, without further ado, the top biblioblogger of the month for January was:

*** Twimmy Twest***

Hey, the rankings aren’t on my blog anymore but that’s still your nickname, Twim.

And, it appears that we all need to keep an eye on Near Emmaus … or about 47 eyes since that’s about how many people they’ve got blogging over there now ;-). But, maybe if we all go over there and blog, Twim’s reign of supremacy will end.  Then, what would happen?  My guess is complete anarchy as Twim unleashes his reign of terror on the world.

At any rate, commence the monthly slew of posts maiming of the blog ranking system and so forth. Just know that now Bishop Wrong may just decide to excommunicate you.

By the way, you may also want to check out the new blogs added to the list this month.

Rank	Blogger	Blog Name	Alexa Rank
1	Jim West	Zwinglius Redivivus	57383
2	Joel L. Watts	Unsettled Christianity	82756
3	Brian LePort	Near Emmaus: Christ and Text	89268
4	Marc Cortez	Scientia et Sapientia	100477
5	Matthew and Madeleine	MandM	103305
6	James McGrath	Exploring Our Matrix	107445
7	John Loftus	Debunking Christianity	135598
8	Jeremy Thompson	Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog	169192
9	J. R. Daniel Kirk	Storied Theology	171690
10	Rodney A. Thomas, Chad Pressley	Political Jesus	176943
11	Neil Godfrey	Vridar	185810
12	Dan Wallace	Contra Mundane	189459
13	Scott Bailey	Scotteriology	206752
14	Glenn Peoples	Say Hello to my Little Friend	206767
15	Todd Bolen	Bible Places	237557
16	Airton José da Silva	Observatório Bíblico	252570
17	Nick Norelli	Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth	254926
18	Thomas Verenna	Musings of Thomas Verenna, The	267240
19	Robert Cargill	Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill, The	302159
20	T.C. Robinson	New Leaven	308017
21	Craig	Simul Iustus et Peccator	332400
22	Daniel O. McClellan	Maklelan	332623
23	Ferrell Jenkins	Ferrell’s Travel Blog	338041
24	Bob Hayton	Fundamentally Reformed	348362
25	Henry Neufeld	Participatory Bible Study Blog	358791
26	Jeff Oien	Scripture Zealot	364485
27	Doug Chaplin	Clay Boy	373914
28	Gavin Rumney	Otagosh	392228
29	Jason Skipper	Pastoral Musings	400585
30	Tim Bulkeley	Sansblogue	426852
31	Ari	Ari’s Blog of Awesomeness	432899
32	Dave Black	Dave Black Online	456412
33	Justin Allison	Old Testament and Ecology	472450
34	Anon	Diglot	475438
35	Matt Dabbs	Kingdom Living	493095
36	Chris Terry	Walking in the Way of Christ	559110
37	Jim Linville	Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room	642491
38	Joseph R. Kelly	Kol ha-adam / כל־האדם	656798
39	Roland Boer	Stalin’s Moustache	673148
40	Brian Fulthrop	συνεσταυρωμαι: Living The Crucified Life	707635
41	Mark Goodacre	NT Blog	709695
42	Brandon Wason	Sitz im Leben	727456
43	Michael S. Heiser	Naked Bible, The, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Every Thought Captive	756927
44	Tim Bulkeley	5 Minute Bible	825502
45	Michael Barber, Brant Pitre & John Bergsma	Sacred Page, The	837374
46	Jason Skipper, et al	Re: Fundamentals	854133
47	Rick Mansfield	This Lamp	886263
48	Rod Decker	NT Resources Blog	936171
49	Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts	ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion	950060
50	Chris Brady	Targuman	951336

New Biblioblogs Added – Jan 2011

The Complete List of Biblioblogs now includes the following biblioblogs, either new, recently resurrected, boasting brand new URLs, or just new to us. Check it:

J. P. van de Giessen	BiblioblogNED
Ben Witherington	Bible and Culture, The
Scot McKnight	Jesus Creed
Larry Tanner	Textuality
John W. Martens	Good Word, The
Robert Holmstedt and John Cook	Ancient Hebrew Grammar
Deane Galbraith	Remnant of Giants
Tim Henderson	Earliest Christianity

If you want a blog added to the list, let me know.

Bibliobloggers: Only a few days to get your votes in to Daniel McClellan for his Bibliobloggers Top 10 for January 2011, the voter’s choice. Email bibliobloggerstop10[at]yahoo.com with your ranking of as many blogs as you want to include.

And Jeremy Thompson will be publishing The Biblioblog Top 50 for January 2011 right here, at its old home.

Biblioblog Rankings for 2011

After conferring with my peeps, Jeremiah and Daniel, we have decided to consolidate the various biblioblog ranking systems on this site. Now, each month, The Biblioblog Top 50 will provide:

• The Biblioblog Top 50 - measured by popularity or hits
• The Bibliobloggers Top 10 - determined by the judicious evaluation of the bibliobloggers themselves

The Biblioblog Top 50 records the top 50 biblical studies blogs (“biblioblogs”) each month, according to the rankings provided by Alexa. The rankings, like all site statistics, are not exact, but provide a reasonable indication of relative popularity among biblioblogs. Alexa only provides rankings for stand-alone blogs, or blogs hosted on the main providers (e.g. wordpress, blogspot, etc). The Biblioblog Top 50 is administered by Jeremy Thompson.

A second measure of top biblioblogs, the Bibliobloggers Top 10 is based on votes received from bibliobloggers. Bibliobloggers may email their personal ranking of the top 10 biblioblogs (or top 1, 2, 3, etc.) to bibliobloggerstop10[at]yahoo.com. Please include in your email a link to your blog. Each vote for 1st place will earn that blog 10 points. 2nd place earns 9 points, and on to 1 point for 10th place. The Bibliobloggers Top 10 is administered by Daniel O. McClellan.

If you have a biblical studies or related blog which you wish to be added to the list, please email the URL, blog name, and blogger’s name to ntwrong[at]gmail.com.

[Note: The Jouissance-Meter, constructed by Lacan himself in the early 1970s, has broken down. Regretably, its inner workings are beyond the ken of the psychoanalyst-clockmakers to whom we sent it for repair.]

Bibliobloggers Top 10 Has Moved to The Biblioblog Top 50

After a bit of collusion, the decision has been made to move the Bibliobloggers Top 10 to The Biblioblog Top 50. This only moderately hostile takeover will combine the Bibliobloggers Top 10, maintained by the really-gotta-pee Dan McClellan, with the full list of biblioblogs, the biblical studies carnival list, and the biblioblog search engine, which will continue to be maintained by the inimitable NT Wrong. Note also that Jim East has announced her full support for the voter-determined Bibliobloggers Top 10.

See here for a description of the Bibliobloggers Top 10′s goals and methodology. For now voters can still submit their top 10 lists to bibliobloggerstop10 @ yahoo . com (spaces for no reason whatsoever). We are, however, looking for a more automatic method (if you know of any, please let us know).

That is all.

Other Biblioblog Rankings for December 2010

James McGrath, by Daniel O. McClellan

There is suddenly a plethora of Biblioblog rankings available in the biblioblogosphere. Also available for December 2010, in descending order of objectivity are:

The Bibliobloggers Top 10 (No. 1 blogger: James McGrath)

The Biblioblog Top 20 (No. 1 blogger: Rachel Barenblat)

The [spurious] Biblioblog top 50 (No. 1 blogger: Jim West)

But there can be only one.

Your Top 10 Blogs for December 2010

Original post here: http://bibliobloggerstop10.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/you-top-10-blogs-for-december-2010/ (by Daniel McClellan)

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Following are the blogger-determined top 10 blogs for the month of December. And for your entertainment, we’ll create caricatures of our #1 blogger each month. Your winner this month is James McGrath at Exploring Our Matrix!

2. Paleojudaica
3. Excavator: The Official Blog of Robert Cargill
4. Storied Theology
5. Unsettled Christianity
6. Diglotting
7. כל־האדם
8. Experimental Theology
9. ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ
10. The Sacred Page

We had few voters this time around, so this list represents a very limited portion of the biblioblogosphere. Be sure to send your votes in to bibliobloggerstop10[at]yahoo.com for January’s blogger-determined top 10.

Biblioblog Top 50 – December 2010

Original post here: http://www.freeoldtestamentaudio.com/Blog/New.php/?p=2045 (by Jeremy Thompson)

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Well, it’s been a crazy year in the history of biblioblogging.  We watched Jim West die and ascend into heaven only to return.  This allowed Joel Watts to be the number one biblioblogger … for a little while.

We witnessed a number of attacks on the Biblioblog top 50.

And, now we’ve witnessed the attempted overthrow of the Biblioblog top 50.

But, in the end, the Biblioblog top 50 transcends all of us … perhaps all of reality. #1 can die, ascend into heaven, and return … it can be attacked on all sides … rebels can stage a coup … but the Biblioblog top 50 … well, it just IS.

So, without further ado, congrats to:

*** Twestie ***

He’s still number one on the list and in our hearts … and, here is your OFFICIAL Biblioblog top 50 (watch out, Joel, Mark Stevens’ team is nipping at your heals).

Rank	Blogger	Blog Name	Alexa Rank
1	Jim West	Zwinglius Redivivus	61645
2	Joel L. Watts	Unsettled Christianity	103771
3	James McGrath	Exploring Our Matrix	113291
4	Brian LePort, et al	Near Emmaus: Christ and Text	124988
5	John Loftus	Debunking Christianity	154331
6	Matthew and Madeleine	MandM	158824
7	Marc Cortez	Scientia et Sapientia	187567
8	Neil Godfrey	Vridar	197734
9	Todd Bolen	Bible Places	209298
10	J. R. Daniel Kirk	Storied Theology	223540
11	Ferrell Jenkins	Ferrell’s Travel Blog	241332
12	Scott Bailey	Scotteriology	272153
13	Airton José da Silva	Observatório Bíblico	284067
14	Jeremy Thompson	Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog	292794
15	Thomas Verenna	Musings of Thomas Verenna, The	322586
16	Stephen Smuts	Biblical Paths	331115
17	Glenn Peoples	Say Hello to my Little Friend	352099
18	Bob Hayton	Fundamentally Reformed	360111
19	Mark Stevens	Scripture, Ministry, and the People of God	366641
20	Dan Wallace	Contra Mundane	371582
21	Jeff Oien	Scripture Zealot	376138
22	Craig	Simul Iustus et Peccator	436169
23	Henry Neufeld	Participatory Bible Study Blog	441895
24	Tim Bulkeley	Sansblogue	461288
25	Nick Norelli	Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth	462487
26	Matt Dabbs	Kingdom Living	464110
27	Daniel O. McClellan	Maklelan	467089
28	Robert Cargill	Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill, The	474231
29	Gavin Rumney	Otagosh	480323
30	Dave Black	Dave Black Online	498672
31	Michael Barber, Brant Pitre & John Bergsma	Sacred Page, The	540278
32	Rodney A. Thomas, Chad Pressley	Political Jesus	560558
33	Doug Chaplin	Clay Boy	575201
34	Jim Linville	Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room	576810
35	T.C. Robinson	New Leaven	590227
36	Chris Terry	Walking in the Way of Christ	596751
37	Jason Skipper	Pastoral Musings	638120
38	Phillip Long	Reading Acts	645696
39	Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts	ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion	667781
40	Jonathan Robinson	Xenos	700115
41	Chris Brady	Targuman	768484
42	John Hobbins	Ancient Hebrew Poetry	796065
43	Brandon Wason	Sitz im Leben	804687
44	Tony Burke	Apocryphicity	880423
45	Ari	Ari’s Blog of Awesomeness	883661
46	Michael S. Heiser	Naked Bible, The, PaleoBabble, UFO Religions, Every Thought Captive	888271
47	Bob MacDonald	Matthew	954400
48	Darrell Pursiful	Dr. Platypus	1040194
49	Rod Decker	NT Resources Blog	1052209
50	Justin Allison	Old Testament and Ecology	1055896