August Biblioblog Carnival

Jim West has put together an excellent round-up of all the blogging posts of interest for the month of August, It’s The August Biblioblog Carnival! The ‘Look, There’s a List of Biblioblog Twitterers’ Edition.  The twitterers link isn't working for me at the moment, but otherwise it's all good stuff.

Update (22.25): The Bibliobloggers who tweet link is now working again.

April Fool's Biblical Studies' Carnival

Jonathan Robinson has put together an excellent Biblical Studies Carnival, rounding up all the activity for the month of April:

April Fool's Biblical Studies Carnival

Don't miss the seriously weird illustration of something that is not Jonah coming out of the fish's head.

March Biblical Studies Carnival

Over on Abnormal Interests, Duane Smith has a superb round-up of all the interesting blog activity from the last month:

March Biblical Studies Carnival

Biblioblog Carnival February 2012

When you are away from the blogs as often as I tend to be these days, it's great to have a Biblioblog Carnival  to help you catch up.  This one is by Amanda Mac on Cheese-Wearing Theology and it's a nice treat to have it divided up along lines dictated by Babylon 5, surely one of the best TV series of all time.

Biblical Studies Carnival 69

The latest and unbelievably comprehensive Biblical Studies Carnival is up:

Biblical Studies Carnival 69 (November 2011)

It is compiled by the ever-impressive Deane Galbraith and it is as lively as you would expect.  I am now proud to have met Deane, sadly only very briefly, in San Francisco last week.  

Biblioblog Carnivals

So what's everyone been up to  while I've been away?  On these occasions, I like to turn to the Biblioblog Carnivals, and I am not disappointed this time.  Over on Scotteriology, there are two carnivals, "the lesser" and "the greater":

September Biblioblog Carnival: The "Lesser"

September 2011 Biblical Studies Carnival: The "Greater"

I must admit that I don't know / can't remember / can't work out who is behind Scotteriology, and the about page doesn't help me much, but many thanks for helping those, like me, who have not been around the blogs at all in September and can catch up with such an entertaining digest.

Biblioblogging Carnival at Unsettled Christianity

Occasionally, I drop off the face of the earth and become so immersed in research that the blogging doesn't so much go onto the back burner as into the back bedroom. It's at times like that the biblioblogging carnivals are so useful. And for May, Joel Watts put together a superb piece over on his number 1 blog:

Biblioblogging Carnival - Unsettled Edition

Talking of number 1 blogs, it seems that these days there is a kind of voting system for blogs too -- May 2011 Top Ten Biblioblogs. Unsurprisingly, the winner there is James McGrath.  But coming in at a very impressive number 7 is April DeConick. It's impressive because it's on the basis of a mere four posts in May, compared to Jim West, at number 10, who posted a record-breaking four million, eight hundred and fifty thousand, three hundred and twenty two posts in May.

Update (Thursday, 9.51): Chuck Grantham comments, over on A 'Goula Blogger.

Biblioblogging Carnival

Dr Jim has composed a fantastic biblioblogging carnival for the month of April:

It's the Jolly Great Hodge Podge Biblioblogging Carnival!

It's a tour de force. And it has pictures too.

Biblical Studies Carnivals and Top Blogs

When you have been out of the loop, it is fantastic to be able to catch up via the Biblical Studies Carnival.  There is an excellent one for February 2011 over on a blog called A Fistful of Farthings.  I'm ashamed to say that it's not a blog I have been reading, so the Carnival has been good for advertising its author's work:

February 2011 Biblical Studies Carnival

Meanwhile, the new voted-for Top 10 Biblioblogs list is also available:

February 2011 Top 10 Biblioblogs

And, wonder of wonders, the NT Blog is in there at number 8! Thanks to whoever voted for me -- greatly appreciated!

And then there is the Biblioblog Top 50 by actual sales:

Biblioblog Top 50 for February (by Alexa Rank)

Bibliobogging Carnival, Top 50 and Top 10

I am having the kind of busy beginning of term that is reducing the amount of time I have to keep up with the blogs, so it's great to have Jim West putting together a carnival to help us to catch up with what we might have missed. It's really well done -- comprehensive, clear, lively:

Biblical Studies Carnival for January 2011

And most importantly, it mentions the NT Blog a couple of times.

Meanwhile, the renewed Biblioblog Top 50 has the latest chart for January:

(N. T. Wrong Approved) Bibliblog Top 50 January 2011

It's nice having NT Wrong fronting it again. And there is also the latest of the new Top 10 by votes chart, with congratulations to James McGrath for the well-deserved top spot, and Bob Cargill (nicely caricatured) at number 2.

January 2011 Top 10 Biblioblogs

NT Blog, though, is nowhere in sight. Belated New Year's Resolution: must do better!

Possibly the best Biblical Studies Carnival Ever?

Here at the NT Blog, we are up late at night every night, twiddling our thumbs, hanging around and waiting for something worth reading to appear online. Usually, it is slim pickings but tonight is one of those rare occasions when our hope is more than satisfied.  Deane Galbraith has one of the best, perhaps the best Biblical Studies Carnival ever over on the Religion Bulletin:

Biblical Studies Carnival נז (November 2010)

It will take you several hours to read it properly, especially if you follow all the links, as of course you are obliged to do. Galbraith fans gather around -- it's quantity as well as quality.

Oktoberfest Biblical Studies Blog Carnival Extravaganza!

Jonathan Robinson of the ξἐνος blog has done an excellent job with the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, gathering together lots of highlights from biblioblogs from October:

Oktoberfest Biblical Studies Blog Carnival Extravaganza!

Next month, it is Deane Galbraith.

Biblical Studies Carnival Latest

There is a new Biblical Studies Carnival online, for September 2010, over on a blog that's new to me, You Can't Mean That! by Steven Demmler:

Biblical Studies Carnival: September Edition

Biblical Studies Carnival, and Other Blog News

For the second month running, Jim West has done an excellent job of producing a Biblical Studies Carnival, rounding up all sorts of interesting posts on Biblical Studies and related areas from all over the blogosphere:

August 2010 Biblical Studies Carnival

I am proud to say that I actually remembered and got round to nominating several posts this time around.

Meanwhile, several have the good news that the University of Sheffield Biblical Studies Department has a new blog.

For those interested in who has the most popular Biblical Studies related blogs at the moment, Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog has the latest.

And while we are on the subject, I was disappointed to notice recently that the Biblioblogs.com website had gone down. It looks like the domain name was not renewed, and the content has all gone, at least for now, which is a shame.

Return of the Biblical Studies Blog Carnival

As James McGrath notes, a Biblical Studies Carnival has been spotted over on Jim West's blog, Zwinglius Redivivus. From what I recall, this is the first such carnival for a while; Tyler Williams's page records nothing for several months. So a big thanks to Jim for putting this one together with his customary eye for detail. It's a bit light on references to the NT Blog, but all you need to know about what's been happening here is some rambling about my trip to Israel and a discussion with several other bloggers about the future for online textbooks, a discussion that looks likely to run into August too.

Biblical Studies Carnival 51 and more

I'm back from a short trip to the UK and a temporary hiatus in blogging.  You can catch up on the latest around the blogs with the Biblical Studies Carnival 51, by Brooke Lester, at the Anumma Blog.

Meanwhile, Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog has its latest Biblioblog rankings.  NT Blog, not surprisingly, has tumbled down the rankings with the relative paucity of postings in February, but it's good to see the NT Pod hot on its heels at number 29, and the NT Gateway just behind that at 30.

Next month's Biblical Studies Carnival sees the return of Jim West to the fold.  Whatever he says about ruffling feathers, the fact is that his previous carnivals have been among the best and most thorough of any.  It's a shame that they are no longer available after the recent major blog deletion.  Perhaps we should retrieve them?

Biblical Studies Carnival 50

Duane Smith has posted the latest Biblical Studies Carnival, number 50, over on Abnormal Interests. (At least I think it's supposed to be 50?). There is a lot of stuff there, nicely divided into two halves, the first of submissions from outsiders, the second of Duane's own selections.

Meanwhile, the Biblioblog top 50 continues over in Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog.

Biblical Studies Carnival 48

Doug Chaplin has done a fantastic job with the latest Biblical Studies Carnival. The mind boggles at how long it must have taken to put it together, and it's full of interesting content and some nice observations along the way. I was particularly pleased to see the section dedicated to audio and video resources:

Biblical Studies Carnival 48

Biblical Studies Carnival 47

Kevin Scull has a fine Biblical Studies Carnival up on Paul of Tarsus:

Biblical Studies Carnival XLVII

Like all the best carnivals, I kept seeing things that I had not seen before or thought I had not seen before.

Biblical Studies Carnival 46

Daniel and Tonya at Hebrew and Greek Reader do an outstanding job on the latest Biblical Studies Carnival:

Biblical Studies Carnival XLVI