Biblical Studies Carnival - January 2011 Version

Obviously since I posted very little in January, I didn't make the carnival, but that's no reason why you shouldn't visit Jim West's amazing and fabulous round-up of the biblioblogosphere from last month.

January 2011 Biblical Studies Carnival

Biblical Studies Carnival XLVI

The latest biblical studies carnival has been posted at Hebrew and Greek Reader. This blog was mentioned a few times. Thanks for a great carnival, Daniel and Tonya!

Biblical Studies Carnival 45

The next installment of the Biblical Studies Carnival is up at The Golden Rule. Enjoy.

Biblical Studies Carnival 44

Biblical Studies Carnival is up, hosted by the #1 biblioblogger for the last 5 months, Dr Jim West. It's mildly entertaining, to say the least. In other blog news, the Biblioblog Top 50 for July is also posted. As expected, I've fallen out of the top 50 to #86, due to my all-but-non-existent posting in July which you can expect to continue for several months at least.

New Revelation: The Apocalypse of Eve

The Apocalypse of Eve, also known as Biblical Studies Carnival 43, has been revealed and translated by Pat McCullough. Pat has put his research interest in apocalyptic literature to good use, translating an ancient scroll that surprisingly contained revelations about biblioblogging in June 2009 with uncanny accuracy. Very creative for a biblical studies carnival. Check it out!

The Jim West Carnival

Since Jim was snubbed by the most recent Biblical Studies Carnival (even though he's the #1 Biblioblog by some estimations), I thought I'd rectify that with my own Carnival devoted entirely to highlighting the delightfully eclectic mix of content that comes from the blog of Dr Jim West.

Jim's posts seem to fall predictably into a few general categories, and I've used those to organize the carnival.

1.  Things Jim Doesn't Like - oddly for a blogger, they often have to do with technological change - Wikipedia and Twitter, for example.

Osteenism and Warren-ianity (i.e., the Megachurch movement)
Harvard: A Step Behind the Obvious (re:, Twitter)
Twits: 1000 Words +26 (Twitter, again)
Twitter Truth [I wonder if he's read this week's Time yet. Twitter traffic has grown 1300% over a year ago -- How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live]
Maybe There is Something Good About Wiki After All

2.  Total Depravity - news showing how capable of evil humanity really is.

Craigslist: Is it Really Good for Anything At All? (while not tagged Total Depravity - the story qualifies. Read it.)
Total Depravity: The Meth Making Mom and Dad
The Most Horrific Case of Total Depravity

3.  Tracking Crazy Stuff People are Saying about the Bible or Christianity.

Marvin Vining on 'Jesus as the Wicked Priest' (admittedly Jim might take him seriously, but I needed something for this category.)
Archaeological Mis-Speaking
Juicy Dilettantism

4.  Teasing Fellow Bloggers - especially Chris Tilling and James Crossley.

Where in the World are Crossley and Tilling Now?
Where in the World is James Crossley Now?
Where in the World is Chris Tilling Now?

5.  The Pointing Device - drawing attention to substantive research, books, journals, articles or even blog posts on Biblical topics.

Aramaic Resurgence
Thomas Thompson: The Long Awaited Festschrift (admittedly may not qualify as "substantive research" in everyone's eyes but I haven't read it.)
Tregelles Greek New Testament Online
Cargill, Qumran, And Bible & Interpretation

6.  Talking About The News

Chomsky Chews Obama's Cairo Speech
San Diego Comes to Its Senses
Israel's About to Outlaw Free Speech

7.  Too Many Random Observations

You Reap What You Sow
And Speaking of a Failure to Observe
And an 'Observation' I Don't . . .
PETA: Making Anything It Can of Anything It Can

And this is mostly stuff from just the last week or so with a few going back nearly a month just to give a good representation of the category. According to Google Reader, he averages 52.7 posts per week, so that's a lot of ground to cover. Jim has a few other favorite topics like gun control, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Biblical Archaeology Review. The only downside is that he never tells us what he really thinks. He's just too tactful and restrained.

Biblical Studies Carnival XLII

For those of you who can't read Roman numerals, that's Biblical Studies Carnival 42 which is now up at Ketuvim. And this blog was actually noted twice. Apparently, May was a slow month all around. Check it out if you're looking for more to read. The amazing thing is that he's managed to completely avoid mentioning the so-called #1 biblioblog.

Announcing Biblical Studies Carnival 41

James McGrath at Exploring Our Matrix has promptly posted Biblical Studies Carnival 41. James has done a great job of rounding up the best posts from April for your reading pleasure, and not only that, but he's made it quite entertaining as a carnival should be.  Thanks, James.

Biblical Studies Carnivals 37 & 38

The recently retired NT Wrong has stepped in to produce the past-due Biblical Studies Carnival XXXVII, highlighting posts from December 2008. 

Earlier this week, the regularly scheduled Biblical Studies Carnival highlighting January posts was produced by Judy Redman.

Between the two of them, there's a lot of reading to do, so get to it!

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXVI by Dr Jim West

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXVI has been posted tonight by Dr Jim West. It's not nearly as witty and creative as say XXXV or XXXIV, but what more can we expect from Jim? Hopefully, this doesn't turn out to be the last one after all. It would be a shame to go out with a fizzle...

But seriously, Jim has done a fair job of rounding up some interesting links for this month's carnival. I'm just bitter that I only got mentioned once this time. (I'm not really bitter...)

Go there. Read up on all the posts that you may have missed because you were spending all your time here.

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXV is Up!

It's the beginning of the month again and that means another Biblical Studies Carnival.  This time it's number XXXV at Abnormal Interests.  Duane's done a fine job rounding up all these posts and keeping track of the flurry of blogging activity from just these last 4 days.  It's perfect since he asked that nothing be discovered before the end of the month . . . Proof that the Master of the Universe has a sense of humor. 

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXIV at MetaCatholic

Doug Chaplin has posted Biblical Studies Carnival XXXIV at MetaCatholic. It is very thorough and creatively organized with a topical acrostic. Check it out to get a taste of what the biblioblogging world was up to during September.

For those who keep track of such things, Jim West is mentioned 3 times. I only bring it up so that I can use my "Jim West" category here.

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXIII at Pisteuomen

Michael Halcomb has prepared an amazingly thorough Biblical Studies Carnival XXXIII for us at his blog, Pisteuomen. Even with all the blogs that I follow, he still covered many that I'd never heard of. Very impressive. Check it out.

My only complaint is the spelling of my name. Mangum, not Magnum. Mangum, not Magnum. I already survived junior high and high school being called Magnum P.I. all the time. It's not a big deal, but let the record show...

Update: Michael has graciously updated his carnival post with the correct spelling of my name. A minor detail, but I appreciate his attentiveness.

Biblical Studies Carnival XXXII

John Hobbins at Ancient Hebrew Poetry has posted Biblical Studies Carnival XXXII in not one, not two, but three excellent installments.  July was a busy month for biblioblogs.  My favorite part was there at the very end of part three where he mentions this blog as "worthy of note."  But seriously, he drew my attention to a lot of blogs and online resources that I didn't know about before, so it's definitely worth checking out the whole thing.