You don’t say. Rachel Marszalek stopped by my blog today, looking at an older post I did on Junia, to which she linked on her own blog. Rachel describes herself as an Anglican Ordinand and uses the following labels for herself: “Christian, Anglican, Evangelical, conservative (small C), Charismatic (big C), Open, Post-modern.” Have a look, for instance, at her posts tagged with “Bible” (which doesn’t even include all of her posts on biblical studies) and it looks to me that we could call Rachel’s a “biblioblog,” if she so desired. Not only that, if we were to include her as a “biblioblog,” based on her Alexa ranking, I think she’d go straight to the Top 50. Fancy that.
Now, Rachel, you may be sitting there bewildered by this post. I don’t know if you follow biblioblogs at all, but we are an active community of people who blog about academic biblical studies (though some are more “academic” than others). We have a Top 50 ranking, a monthly carnival, and bibliobloggers of the month. Recently, we’ve been talking about how few women we have in our ranks and some of us are hoping to find some more female bloggers who might unwittingly deserve the label “bibliobloggers.”
All of that said, do check out Rachel’s blog. I’ve added her to my own feed reader and look forward to some interesting conversation. Incidentally, I’ve just noticed that Rachel is not unknown to bibliobloggers as links to her blog show up quite a few times in the biblioblog custom search, but her blog itself is not included in the “official” list.
This is rather embarrassing but thank you (I blush). I have read a lot about bibliobloggers, and particularly lately. I consider myself such a novice, though.
So is this what is happening do you think? Some of us, male and female are waiting for that time, which I don’t think ever comes, when we finally feel like we might know what we’re talking about and then we would be willing to be inspected for that honourable ‘top fifty thing’.
I am glad that you have finally met Rachel. I have linked to her for quite a while now and some other women although not as many as I should.
Well, her “Ode to Gordon Fee” will get her a place on BryanL’s blogroll!
Hi Rachel, Sorry to put you on the spot there! You just seemed like a great example of what I’ve been talking about lately!
Believe me, people in the Top 50 do not necessarily know what their talking about! It’s not about who knows the most or makes the best arguments. The Top 50 is simply a ranking of traffic volume in a given month.