• Broken and Redeemed
• Why I Believe Jesus
• The Fellowship of Devotional Bloggers
• VISUAL UNIT
• Delving into the Scriptures – formerly Scripture in Pictures – The Bible through the eyes of a Photographer
• Pastor Eric’s Pen and Scroll

• Our Greek geek friend Mike Aubrey has a new photoblog called A Photography Enthusiast
• Arminians Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief: Barna says there is no Reformed Resurgence (and I don’t think it matters)
• Six Sacred Cows
• RE: Women and Authority in 1 Tim. 2:12? Craig Blomberg responds to Denny Burk
• Olive Tree eBooks – some of them free

Bible Gateway and the Gospel Coalition Create Online Bible Translation Blog and will have a contributor from the HCSB

Announcing NLT.to

public domain bible project – Mitchell’s blog has a renewed focus on the Bible (yay) and takes us into the WEB translation

Best bug pictures I’ve ever seen, by Thomas Shahan

As mentioned here before, I believe that God created most things mainly for his own enjoyment in addition to ours. We will never see the vast majority of it. Macro photography can help us see a little more of the smaller things God created.

I chose one of the more pleasing photos to post here so as not to gross people out too much. If you can’t stand bugs you’ll want to skip the site. I have a mild phobia with spiders and some other bugs but when they’re that close they look less gross to me for some reason, and make me think twice about smooshing them. I can take pictures of them if there’s a camera between me and them. Otherwise I keep my distance.

Hopefully at least one of these is new and interesting to you.

• Acidri’s Blog®
• Deconstructing Neverland – new or renewed
• The Assembling of the Church – see Transliterations and Translations

Regarding the last blog post mentioned–I used to be a stickler for translations using traditional theological terms. Then I realized, as this article says, that many of them are just from Latin or other languages and ‘transliterated’ into English. Ever since they did that in the KJV, translations have kept doing that so that we don’t even realize they aren’t necessarily direct ‘translations’ from the original languages. I still think there is merit to this so we all know what we’re talking about and the terms are now real, but it’s still eye opening and helps me to accept translations that don’t transliterate as much, like the NLT, GNT (GNB/TEV) etc. If I’ve got this wrong or you disagree, let me know.

HT: most likely all from A Pilgrim’s Progress

Here are some blog posts that I found particularly interesting. I hope I’m not just repeating what you’ve already found.

Monday With Mounce at Koinonia:

I am also starting to write my paper for the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society entitled, “Can the ESV and TNIV Co-exist in the same Universe?” This is in response to Mark Strauss’ invitation in his paper last year, “Why the English Standard Version (ESV) should not become the Standard English Version.” So you will understand if my blog posts for some time are comparing the ESV and the TNIV. [emphasis added]

3 Ways to Benefit from “Boring” Passages at Desiring God

Gospel Definitions at Kingdom People

But ask what you can do for your fellow biblioblogger….. at The Church of Jesus Christ

1. The title of your blog should be in Greek or Hebrew. Preferably Greek. Then most people can’t read it and you feel superior.
2. Call people out. If you disagree with something someone said on another blog, make a post of your own and write about all the things you disagree with. This gives you the upper hand and makes you feel superior.
3. Call scholars by their casual first names. Even if you know them, this is cool.
4. Talk about how awful sinners are. Then you can be glad you aren’t like them.
5. Switch themes often. This is the opposite of brand awareness. It gives you something to do when you need to waste time and keeps your readers on their toes because they forget who’s blog they’re reading until they look at the title again.
6. Write very short posts. Most people have the attention span of a gnat. This make things easier for you and doesn’t burden your readers with anything substantial.

Photo © Jeff at Scripture Zealot

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 updated my blogroll. I know that some people like to look through them if they’re looking for reading material. I’m letting you know in case you’re using Google Reader or another feed reader and would want to come and check it out.

Here are some lists:

• Biblioblog Top 50
• Biblioblogs.com
• Top 100 Theology Blogs
• 100 Enlightening Bible Study Blogs
• 300+ Bible Bloggers: A List

I didn’t realize I was listed on this site until recently. I’m honored. If you’re interested in finding other Bible blogs this may be the most complete list out there:
A Map of the World of Bible Bloggers