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Featured BLogger for April 2009

Posted on | April 11, 2009 | No Comments

I just uploaded John’s interview with Simon Holloway, the author of Davar Akher. It is definitely worth reading if you’re fascinated at all with the Hebrew Bible, especially the development and dialects of the Hebrew language, or the book of Nehemiah. Even if these are not your specialties, you’ll find the interview informative and entertaining. I promise. You can read it here.

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Jim West’s Departure

Posted on | April 5, 2009 | No Comments

A few days ago, Jim West informed me that he would like to step down from his editorial position at Biblioblogs.com. Jim’s service to the site has been extraordinary. He conducted our first interview with Stephen Carlson three and half years ago. Since then, he’s conducted dozens of other interviews, helped us maintain a focused and up-to-date set of links, and benefited the blogging community in many other ways. We appreciate all his hard work and he will be missed. He will, however, continue to maintain his own prolific blog (Dr Jim West) which has always held a high place among the biblioblogging world. Thanks Jim!

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An Addition

Posted on | March 26, 2009 | 1 Comment

I’ve added a link to the fairly new Dilettante Hobby Horse Biblioblog. Send the goofy comments you receive over there- the new gathering place of bibloblogdom’s Dreck, and spare your own blog the clog. And thanks to whoever’s behind it. I have an idea or two but further investigation is warranted.

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Canonical Cleanup

Posted on | March 18, 2009 | 3 Comments

Defunct blogs have been removed (and you’re defunct if there’s no new action in a month) and one new one has been added.

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Barry Bandstra’s Blog

Posted on | March 9, 2009 | No Comments

Enjoy.

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Who Knew? There Are Female Bibliobloggers!

Posted on | March 6, 2009 | No Comments

Thanks to Scott Bailey for pointing out the blog of Dorothy Peters, a Canadian Old Testament scholar. I’ve added a link to the sidebar.

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Neither Racist Nor Sexist

Posted on | March 2, 2009 | 2 Comments

Accusations or suggestions that Biblioblogs.com interviews are somehow racist or sexist are both ridiculous and absurd. And I have to say, a bit insulting. We interview people who blog biblical studies. Period. We have never decided for or against an interviewee based on that person’s sex or race.

Nor should we, on the other hand, interview persons of color or females merely or simply because they are such. Affirmative action in the biblioblogosphere is neither necessary nor desirable.

Finally, we’ve all heard the argument before that there are too many white males blogging. Is that our fault? Can we force minorities or women to blog the bible? Or can we force them to attend meetings or get togethers? If there are few minority or women bloggers who attend the SBL then they have only themselves to blame, not us.

We work with the material available to us. We don’t invent it. So for those of you who think that we are somehow being unfair or unjust or just downright racist or sexist, I find myself forced to say to you, you don’t have any idea of what you are talking about, and your accusations are nothing less than foolish Dreck.

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A Biblioblogger Book Stack

Posted on | February 21, 2009 | 2 Comments

I took a photo of some books by various bibliobloggers in order to have inspiration for a new site design. The redesign will have to wait until summer, but I thought I’d post the photo here on the blog. The order and selection of the books here are completely arbitrary. NB: The photo has been hastily photoshopped to remove some of those LOC identification stickers.

Books included in this photo:

  1. Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax: Morton Smith’s Invention of Secret Mark.
  2. James McGrath, John’s Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and Development in Johannine Christology
  3. J. R. Daniel Kirk, Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God
  4. Roland Boer (ed.), Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies
  5. Michael F. Bird, The Saving Righteousness of God: Studies on Paul, Justification and the New Perspective
  6. Phil Harland, Associations, Synagogues, and Congregations: Claiming a Place in Ancient Mediterranean Society
  7. Stephen L. Cook, The Apocalyptic Literature (Interpreting Biblical Texts)
  8. R. Christopher Heard, Dynamics of Diselection: Ambiguity in Genesis 12-36 and Ethnic Boundaries in Post-Exilic Judah
  9. Jim West, Ezra-Nehemiah: For the Person in the Pew
  10. James G. Crossley, The Date of Mark’s Gospel: Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity
  11. Mark Goodacre, The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze
  12. Scot McKnight, Jesus and His Death: Historiography, the Historical Jesus, and Atonement Theory
  13. Joel Willitts, Matthew’s Messianic Shepherd-King: In Search of ‘The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel’
  14. Ben Witherington III, Letter and Homilies for Jewish Christians: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Hebrews, James and Jude
  15. April D. DeConick, The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation: With a Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel
  16. James D. Tabor, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity
  17. Christian M. M. Brady, The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations: Vindicating God
  18. James R. Davila, The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, or Other?
  19. Alan Lenzi, Secrecy and the Gods: Secret Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel
  20. Rodney Decker, Koine Greek Reader: Selections from the New Testament, Septuagint, and Early Christian Writers
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The Biblioblog Top 50 Gets a New Home

Posted on | February 19, 2009 | No Comments

Here. I’ve added a link to the sidebar as well.

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A Russian Blogger

Posted on | February 18, 2009 | No Comments

I’ve added a link to Andrei Orlov’s interesting OT / Pseudepigrapha blog.

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