Biblioblog Rankings by Alexa May 2011 – The “Nah, nah, nah, nah … Hey, hey, hey Goodbye, Jim West” Edition
Posted by Jeremy on May 31, 2011
Oh my! This is the real deal this time. “Number 2″ Joel Watts (et al) has taken over the top spot from perennial Biblioblog rankings tyrant leader the devil Jim West. Will the top two spat or will Beelzebub Jim relinquish his title graciously? Will the person who I’m sure must have cheated somehow Joel rub it in or behave like a good sport? Stayed tuned for this episode of As The BiblioBlog World Turns …. :)
Updated
| Rank | Blogger | Blog Name | Alexa Rank |
| 1 | Joel L. Watts, et al | Unsettled Christianity | 67111 |
| 2 | Jim West | Zwinglius Redivivus | 69774 |
| 3 | James McGrath | Exploring Our Matrix | 106545 |
| 4 | Marc Cortez | Scientia et Sapientia | 152050 |
| 5 | John Loftus | Debunking Christianity | 160318 |
| 6 | Neil Godfrey | Vridar | 185837 |
| 7 | Matthew and Madeleine | MandM | 198403 |
| 8 | J. R. Daniel Kirk | Storied Theology | 200710 |
| 9 | Airton José da Silva | Observatório Bíblico | 226410 |
| 10 | Todd Bolen | Bible Places | 234263 |
| 11 | Scott Bailey | Scotteriology | 235483 |
| 12 | Dan Wallace | Contra Mundane | 267707 |
| 13 | Thomas Verenna | Musings of Thomas Verenna, The | 284452 |
| 14 | Brian LePort | Near Emmaus: Christ and Text | 327445 |
| 15 | Ferrell Jenkins | Ferrell’s Travel Blog | 344004 |
| 16 | Glenn Peoples | Say Hello to my Little Friend | 347064 |
| 17 | Jason Skipper | Pastoral Musings | 349995 |
| 18 | Peter Kirk | Gentle Wisdom | 372622 |
| 19 | Henry Neufeld | Participatory Bible Study Blog | 373907 |
| 20 | Doug Chaplin | Clay Boy | 407285 |
| 21 | Dave Black | Dave Black Online | 414193 |
| 22 | Jeff Oien | Scripture Zealot | 422429 |
| 23 | Rodney A. Thomas, Chad Pressley, Amanda | Political Jesus | 453965 |
| 24 | Bob Hayton | Fundamentally Reformed | 468768 |
| 25 | Jim Linville | Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop and Tea Room | 535047 |
| 26 | Mitchell Powell | Font Words | 553798 |
| 27 | T.C. Robinson | New Leaven | 579952 |
| 28 | Ari | Ari’s Blog of Awesomeness | 600433 |
| 29 | Tim Bulkeley | 5 Minute Bible | 616290 |
| 30 | Tim Bulkeley | Sansblogue | 618470 |
| 31 | Brandon Wason | Sitz im Leben | 628095 |
| 32 | Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts | ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ / Evangelion | 633986 |
| 33 | Daniel O. McClellan | Maklelan | 656252 |
| 34 | Matt Dabbs | Kingdom Living | 659944 |
| 35 | Nick Norelli | Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth | 664575 |
| 36 | Craig | Simul Iustus et Peccator | 668803 |
| 37 | Michael Barber, Brant Pitre & John Bergsma | Sacred Page, The | 676443 |
| 38 | Ken Schenck | Quadrilateral Thoughts | 696546 |
| 39 | Gavin Rumney | Otagosh | 703430 |
| 40 | John Hobbins | Ancient Hebrew Poetry | 716042 |
| 41 | Stephan Huller | Stephan Huller’s Observations | 754399 |
| 42 | Jason Skipper, et al | Re: Fundamentals | 767899 |
| 43 | Chris Terry | Walking in the Way of Christ | 771483 |
| 44 | Rachel Marszalek | Re-vis.e Re-form | 781442 |
| 45 | Pat McCullough | Kata ta biblia | 807736 |
| 46 | Peter J. Leithart | Leithart.com | 823806 |
| 47 | Robert Cargill | Official Blog of Robert R. Cargill, The | 827993 |
| 48 | Leo Quix | Quixotic Infidel, The | 892627 |
| 49 | Nijay K. Gupta | Nijay K. Gupta | 898323 |
| 50 | Phillip Long | Reading Acts | 900502 |
| 50* | Matthew Crowe | A Fistful of Farthings | 919006 |
| * Previously #50 | |||
I’m Number 1; Number 6 can now declare me a myth | Unsettled Christianity said
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There’s a new King in town (Biblioblog Rankings for May 2011) | Exploring Our Matrix said
[...] May 31, 2011 by James F. McGrath GA_googleAddAttr("author", "JamesFMcGrath"); ShareCongratulations to Joel Watts and the other bloggers at Unsettled Christianity who have also unseated the reigning champion of the biblioblog wars, Jim West. [...]
James F. McGrath said
Thanks for posting this, and congratulations to the new #1!
I’ll also mention that Exploring Our Matrix has moved to Patheos meaning that this will probably be my last month in the rankings. [sniff]
revisingreform said
I echo congrats to the new number one!!
I am still hanging in there at no. 43 – phew!
Happy biblioblogging!
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stephan huller said
My blog is ranked high enough to be top 50
http://www.stephanhuller.blogspot.com
I even sent an email to Rachel yesterday
Alexa has: 1 month 754,399
That would rank me 41st
Joel said
I wasn’t aware that Stephan counted as a biblioblog
stephan huller said
Congratulations Joel on your achievement. It’s the first time you were ranked highest for something other than your girth.
Madeleine said
I thought Harold Camping said that the May Rapture was a spiritual rapture?
What will happen to Jim’s lawn now he has been taken?
stephan huller said
And why is it that my blog is not a ‘biblioblog’ that I am listed with the number six Biblioblog in a category which was only invented to abuse us. I cite from your ‘complete list of biblioblogs’:
5. Fringe-Dwellers and Conspiracy Theorists
Geoffrey Hudson Golb and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Stephen Huller Stephan Huller’s observations
Neil Godfrey Vridar
If my site is not a Biblioblog why is it that articles from my blog have been used by Steve Caruso in the ‘library’ at this site.
I have been contacting Jeremy since yesterday promising me that everything would be taken care of and I have the emails to prove it. Now suddenly there is no response. I am increasingly growing frustrated by the pettiness of people involved here. If I am a Biblioblogger and my site a Biblioblog, then Alexa makes clear that I am in 41st position this month.
If my site is not a Biblioblog then it should be de-listed from the abusive category it is now placed and my articles deleted from the library. If my site is a Biblioblog then there is no excuse for this pettiness. Many of the sites listed in the Top 50 do little more than recycle silly news stories and compile lists. My blog is among the most erudite in the rankings. I have already taken the Top 50 icon for my blog. You are only reinforcing a stereotype about American evangelicals as irrational, small minded people.
Steve Caruso said
@Stephan
First, Rachael and Jeremy don’t directly manage the blog list. I do. Toss inquiries about it in my direction. :-)
Second, the current Complete List of Biblioblogs as well as the Reference Library are undergoing a huge revision as well as a complete re-categorization… and it’s been ongoing for more than a month now as finding time to sort through 600 blogs plus a bunch of blog additions per month is slow going.
Once it’s set, we’ll have a working rubric to give a better idea of what we include as a “Biblioblog” on the main list vs. a “Related Blog.”
For the moment, if your blog is on the Reference Library but not on the Complete List, it’s probably because it was included on the original OPML file that I based the initial blog list on (which I didn’t author). If your blog meets the new criteria, it’ll stay there. If it doesn’t, it’ll be removed.
In either case, don’t take it too seriously or in the meantime I will be forced to rename the category to something goofier. ;-)
Peace,
-Steve
stephan huller said
The question still is why is it that my blog is not counted as a Biblioblog. Unlike the many of the other fifty I don’t funny news stories or gags or lists or goofy photoshop pieces. Every day I only do very stuff (save for my vacation last week when I was remembering my single days in Orlando). To argue that my blog is not a Biblioblog when you look at the list of articles this month is like making the case that squeezing oranges in a glass isn’t orange juice or Bill Clinton’s debate about the definition of sex or the word ‘is.’ This ridiculous. My blog is ranked at 754,399 according to Alexa which would put me in 41st place. Here were the posts this month at my blog:
May 1 New Information Emerges About James Hogg Hunter Author of the Mystery at Mar Saba From the Secret Mark Conference
May 1 Lessons From Mar Saba
May 1 A Major Breakthrough in Marcionite Research – Why the Marcionite Gospel Began With a Visit to Bethsaida Rather than Nazareth
May 3 Proving that ‘Bethsaida’ Was a Reference to the Temple of Jerusalem
May 3 How 11QMelkizedek Proves Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt that the Marcionite Gospel Began With Jesus’s Supernatural Descent into the Jerusalem Temple
May 4 Irenaeus’s Consistent Use of Psalm 110 to Refute the Ancient Alexandrian Enthronement Ritual Originally Associated with Secret Mark
May 4 Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky
May 4 My Developing Gospel of Jesus = the Book of Joshua Thesis
May 5 Explaining Why the Gospel of Jesus is called ‘the Gospel of Jesus’
May 5 Understanding the Mystical Significance of the Numerical Value of the Name Jesus
May 5 Markus Vinzent’s Next Book Will Argue that the Marcionite Gospel is the Source of Both Canonical Mark and Luke
May 5 Why I Came to Accept to Theodore’s ‘Secret Mark’ as an Unrecognized Reference to the Marcionite Gospel
May 6 Morton Smith (And Every Other Scholar Since) Has Failed to Notice a Direct Citation of the Opening Words of the Book of Joshua in Secret Mark
May 6 Detailed Account of What Happened at the Secret Mark Conference From Synoptic Solutions
May 6 Did the Sacrament in Secret Mark Really Involve Water Immersion?
May 7 Fire Baptism and Secret Mark
May 7 The Impressions of the Recent Secret Mark Conference From the Point of View of a Supporter of the ‘Hoax Hypothesis’
May 8 Inching One Step Closer to Proving that Clement Knew About ‘Secret Mark’s Other Baptism
May 9 The Jubilee Concept in Earliest Christianity
May 9 Plenty of Reports on Last Month’s Secret Mark Conference Available on Line
May 9 The Philosophumena and Secret Mark
May 10 Why My Conservative Religious Beliefs Make Me Absolutely Certain that Secret Mark (and the Letter to Theodore) are Authentic
May 11 It’s Official – Allan Pantuck Crowned Winner of the Secret Mark Conference in Toronto
May 11 Intimacy, God and Morton Smith’s Discovery of the Mar Saba Document
May 11 Understanding the Mystical Significance of the Enthronement of St. Mark in Alexandrian Christianity
May 12 Larry Hurtado Weighs in On Secret Mark
May 13 Fire Baptism as the Great Mystery of Alexandria
May 13 The Purification by Fire Ritual Shared by Alexandrian Christians and Samaritans was Likely Zoroastrian in Origin
May 14 The Fire Purification Ritual of Samaritanism and Alexandrian Christianity [Part One]
May 14 The Secret Gospel of Mark and the Alexandrian Mysteries of Divine Kingship.
May 16 ‘Baptism By Fire’ and the Double Enthronement Traditions of the Pentateuch and the Alexandrian Gospel of Mark
May 16 The Zoroastrian Origins of the Judeo-Christian Tradition and the Primacy of Secret Mark Over the Canonical Gospels
May 16 Theodoret Confirms that Clement Knew the Carpocratians ‘Imitated the Naked State of Adam’
May 17 Towards a Theology of Mark’s Secret Gospel
May 17 Disentangling the ‘Zoroastrian Caricature’ of Marcion in the Patristic Writings
May 18 Is It Just Me or is there Anyone Else Who Thinks the Tide is Beginning to Turn With Respect to the Question of to Theodore as a Modern Forgery
May 18 Have I Found a Mandaean Parallel to Secret Mark’s ‘Mystery of Divine Kingship’ Followed by a Crossing of the Jordan?
May 18 The Last Word on the Recent Secret Mark Conference in Toronto
May 18 The ‘Peter Jeffery Challenge’ Gets Challenged at Evangelical Textual Criticism
May 18 Morton Smith Explained
May 19 My Book Will Be Published in Italian
May 19 A Character Reference for Morton Smith from the Academy of the New Church
May 19 Why is it that Smith’s Understanding of the Historical Jesus Sounds So Swedenborgian?
May 20 BAR Releases Agamemnon Tselikas’s Long Awaited ‘Secret Mark’ Handwriting Report
May 21 Agamemnon Tselikas’s Strange Argument for Forgery
May 21 An Update on the Archaeological Expedition in Alexandria to Uncover the Original Church of Egypt
May 21 Roger Viklund Has An Interesting Article on the Handwriting Sample on page 11 of the Mar Saba Ignatius Book
May 22 Tselikas’s Flawed Study of Mar Saba 65
May 22 Charles Hedrick’s Take on the Agamemnon Tselikas’s Report for the Biblical Archaeology Review
May 23 What About Those Rumors that Morton Smith Burned His Papers Just Before He Died?
May 24 Charles W. Hedrick ponders the new information from Agamemnon Tselikas in BAR
May 25 Siri Griffin on Morton Smith`s Religious Beliefs as a Young Man
May 26 Michael Kok PhD Student at the University of Sheffield Says It Best “I Very Cautiously Proceed that `Secret Mark` is Innocent Until Proven Guilty”
May 27 Vacation Notes
May 28 Vacation Notes [Part Two]
May 28 Bart Ehrman`s Most Recent Statement on the Question of Whether the Letter to Theodore is a Forgery
May 29 Ruaridh Boid Confirms the Likelihood of Two Systems of Counting of Sabbatical Years and Jubilees Among the Ancient Samaritans
May 30 Robert Grant and Morton Smith Team Up to Pave the Way for the Solution to the Mystery of the Secret Gospel of Mark
May 30 Were the Canonical Gospels Originally Developed as Centos?
May 31 Why Did a Later Editor Blame the Heretics For Irenaeus’s Gospel Centos?
May 31 Is the Carpocratian κράματος in To Theodore a Gospel Cento?
May 31 Does Irenaeus Let it Slip Out that He Was the Real Author of the Cento Gospels of the Commodian Age (= Our Canonical Gospels)?
My point here is that there can be no debate that my blog is a biblioblog. It certainly isn’t an automobile blog or a ‘tech blog.’ I followed the rules. I contacted Jeremy and he directed me to the blog where I saw that my blog was already registered. I sent an email to correct the rankings. What can possibly be the issue with changing the rankings and placing me in 41st place? I see it happen every month. Why the exception this month?
stephan huller said
The point is what’s the delay. The list of all my content for this month is demonstrated above. You type in my URL wwww.stephanhuller.blogspot.com and check to see if the list is accurate (the list of posts appears at the side of the blog). By now the blog is confirmed as a ‘biblioblog’ (unless a priest has to come and sprinkle holy water on my laptop). Then you take your fingers and type alexa.com and enter my URL in its search engine and confirm that I am in 41st place this month. Then you go back and correct the list moving everybody from 41 down to 49 down one position and type the name of my blog as the 41st blog.
It should all be over at that point.
It’s really very simple unless of course the purpose is merely to delay my blog’s inclusion in the Top 50. Then why not just come and say – Jews are not welcomed – for I have to be honest I don’t see any MOT on this list (= Members Of the Tribe). Is this an accident? Maybe I missed one. I don’t know. But if that is the issue why not just come out and say it?
It can’t be that you’re against people who question Christian orthodoxy as James Loftus and Neil Godfrey are in the top ten. But they’re white. You have an obviously successful outreach program going to attract women. So what’s with the extensive background checks? I feel like guy with the beard reading the Quran going through airport security.
Please explain. This should take all of a minute.
Jeremy said
Stephan,
You have been listed. If you are not listed next month, it will be because you are listed among Fringe-dwellers and Conspiracy theorists not because you are Jewish. In fact, I didn’t even know you were Jewish until you sent me numerous emails without giving me the opportunity to respond.
Joel said
If Huller is a biblioblog, then harold camping is a man of God.
T.C. R said
A new #1! Never thought I’d see that day. :D
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stephan huller said
Wow look at that. I’m a Biblioblogger and almost as good as Joel. Maybe one day he will publish an article in peer reviewed academic journal and we’ll be equals. But then again he’d have to have an original thought. They don’t usually publish articles based on recycled news articles, goofy pictures with captions referencing friends and fellow Bibliobloggers. Maybe Joel can find such a journal when he finishes school and as I said – we’ll be equals.
And Jeremy, I am only listed as a ‘fringe dweller’ owing to the prejudices of the people that run this site. The reason that Jews were historically punished was not owing to distinguishing racial features but because they thought differently than their Gentile neighbors. This is the essence of ‘being Jewish.’
The Patriarchs exemplified above all else a ‘separateness’ from other people that was deemed to be a virtue by the Semitic people who embraced the Mosaic covenant. It is for this reason most likely that the term ‘Pharisees’ (originally used as a disparaging term) was ultimately embraced the sectarians.
As I said, being different and separate from the rest of the pack is the quintessential Jewish virtue in all ages and epochs. The idea that Jews were persecuted for their genetic make-up mistakes modern history for the greater historical pattern. If a Jew embraced ‘Christ’ most objections against his person were quickly forgotten. Hence the conversion of Marx, Mendelssohn etc.
The reason I am abused and my blog disparaged is owing to historical patterns which most of you don’t even recognize. You don’t even understand the religious tradition you claim to study and embody.
The righteousness of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the rest of the patriarchs is principally based on their rejection of the comfort that would be afforded them if they conformed to the way of ‘the nations’ – i.e. you guys. The decision to cleave to the Lord is only the second step. This is why the ancient Israelites are commanded to show kindness to the ‘strangers.’
You people never get this and it is why your religious understanding is meaningless and ultimately worthless.
Joel said
blah blah blah. I wasn’t aware that frankist jews were jews, that you were a biblioblogger, or that anyone cares about your opinions.
stephan huller said
Well slightly fewer people care about my opinions about serious scholarship as your frivolous musings about your favorite flavor of ice cream and some list you made up of your favorite DVDs. You little else to say at your blog unless you radically overhauled your site. Who knows maybe you actually read a book since we last corresponded, went on a diet?
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Jeremiah said
I object strongly to Huller’s assertion. I am clearly the heftiest biblioblogger. I demand my title!
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