The Top Fifty Goes Biannual!
And apparently no longer based solely on Alexa ratings. The ranking criteria go like this: “The Biblioblog Top 50 is a listing of the top 50 Biblical Studies blogs, chosen according to the utterly subjective criteria of sexy style, stimulating content, timely dissemination, regularity, discernment, scholarly depth, innovation, and pazang.”
I came in at #20! I’m glad my blog has enough pazang to make it that far. Thanks, y’all. I’m honored.
And just as I was starting to get the song “Sexy Bitch” out of my head. Now, I believe it is an appropriate anthem for Jim West’s blog. All this time, I have been trying to find the words to describe your blog, Jim, without being disrespectful. And there it is.
Biblioblog Top 50 Goes for Some Shock Value
Did Mark Goodacre touch a nerve? Did “Jim’s Minions” get bored? Depressed at the state of biblioblogging? Whatever the case, they are now only displaying a cheeky post about the Top Fifty Ancient Jewish and Christian Books “for your perusal and betterment.” I’m a little disappointed that the Apocalypse of Eve didn’t make it on there. They tell us: “We hope you will enjoy reading these works as much as we have enjoyed selecting them.” And even give a word of the day: “WOTD: trivialize v. to make trivial: reduce to triviality.” Well said.
Oh, and they are no longer “Jim’s Minions,” but are rather “The Council for the Top Fifty Ancient Jewish and Christian Books.”
Thanks for shaking things up a little, Tom.
Ranking in at #18 . . . L'Chaim!
The lucky Jewish number eighteen, which is the gematria number for chai or “life.” Jews often give in multiples of $18 as gifts for major events or for Jewish charities. I take my #18 November ranking for the Biblioblog Top 50 to mean that this blog is clearly chosen by God.
In the United States, my blog has now “come of age” into adulthood. It can now own property, buy its own cigarettes and pornography, vote, serve on a jury, and go to war (or in the case of this blog, register for conscientious objector status). So, in addition to being chosen by God, this blog is now officially ready to engage in citizenship.
By the way, you really should check out Douglas Chaplin’s outstanding carnival. One of the best carnivals I have seen yet. Go and see what you missed in this important biblioblogging month of November.
I am #22 and You Can Too!
The rankings are up for the September round of the Biblioblog Top 50 and this blog hit #22 on the list! This number is fitting, as there are 22 chapters in the book of Revelation and 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. My place in the list is clearly ordained by God. Hitting a real stride this past month, I posted more in a single month than I ever have–36 posts (still only a fraction of what some other folks do). I also beat my total views for the month by about a thousand over my next best month (July, which included my carnival).
On either side of me in the rankings, perhaps appropriately for the past month, are female bibliobloggers: Suzanne at #21 and Rachel (for whom I advocated in the past month 
) at #23.
My new blogging friend and fellow Celt, Daniel McClellan, is apparently cheating as he has skyrocketed into the top ten after two months of blogging.
Also, Daniel and Tonya have the new carnival up. I was so distracted by the beginning of the quarter that I forgot to send posts in this month. Sorry! Be on the look out at the blog of my colleague and partner in crime, Kevin Scull, as he hosts the carnival next month!
The Biblioblog Top Guns for August Are Up
Well, it’s nice to see that I can go without worrying too much about my stats and still sneak by in the top 50. I made #49 for the past month, which is an 8-slot drop. But the previous month included my explosive carnival 
, so a drop is to be expected. It’s not everyday you find such astounding ancient documents.
New and unexpected readers are coming all the time, though, and often leaving comments. Thanks for the dialogue, everyone! I hope to be posting a bit more after I get through my current indexing project.
Top 50 and Jim's Carnival
Jim West has some good fun with the carnival. My own carnival from last month was included in his category “stuff that’s twisted.”
Another twisted piece in July was Pat’s Carnival. What the devil is Eve doing writing an Apocalypse when she has several sons and numerous unnamed daughters to tend? Get back to the kitchen woman!
It certainly is revolutionary to have found such an important ancient document highlighting a woman who reveals divine secrets.
Thanks for a good time, Jim!
And no small thanks to that particularly twisted post of mine–now my most popular post ever–did I leap 51 slots in the biblioblog rankings to number 41. I’m just astounded at how much jumping around there is from month to month.
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Elsewhere . . .- Blog titles beginning with "A" to "Z" on your reader Mark Goodacre
- Of making many books there is no end Chris Brady
- Free Online: The Liddell-Scott Jones Lexicon S and C
- Does Higher Criticism Attempt to “Destroy the Bible”? II agathos
- Steven J. Friesen and the Identity of Satan’s Throne in Pergamum alan
- Does Higher Criticism Attempt to “Destroy the Bible”? agathos
- Bloomsbury buys Continuum Mark Goodacre
- Imperial America Peter J. Leithart
- C.F.D. Moule on the Birth of the New Testament d. miller
- Responding to Kostenberger (with comparisons to Marshall) Jeremiah
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