The Biblioblog Top 50’s tagline is “The very best in biblical studies blogs“.
On the Technical Bits page it states,
A blog is included in the rankings if it contains substantial content related to biblical studies or closely related fields, evidences a scholarly approach to biblical studies (not requiring academic qualifications, but excluding blogs with mainly homiletic or devotional content, unscholarly approaches, or a primarily theological focus), and is currently active and posting.
First of all I’m not exactly sure what the difference is between “substantial content related to biblical studies” and “primarily theological focus” other than the former is directly related to the Bible. I’m not sure how one can get theological without the Bible though.
I’m not sure how Challies.com is less of a biblioblog than someone like Ben Witherington or Dr Jim West. The whole thing is rather confusing. Dr Jim West should be thankful for the criteria they use for ranking. And me too for that matter only because it helps bring more commenters here that I can learn from.
I’m glad this blog is considered a biblioblog although I’m not sure how scholarly it is.
In any case The Biblioblog Top 50 (and beyond) is a great place to go to find all sorts of Christian blogs.
What do you think?
I think it’s hilarious that the BBTop50 includes itself on the Top 50 list…
Good point. I think they’re a little homiletic myself.
Nice to see you’re still around even if you’re not blogging.
Jeff
Jeff, I thought about this whole thing when the July rankings came out a few weeks back: I wanted to know who was behind it and so on.
It’s good for a little fun (and a little extra traffic), but beyond the small community of bibliobloggers (and I still maintain it should be bibliabloggers, but I’m open to correction) I don’t think anyone has a clue or much cares.
Jeff, I agree.