UPDATE: J. K. Gayle has offered some additional links specifically from women bloggers. (I will more fully incorporate them into the blog when I return from vac and have access to a computer. Back so see the bottom of the post for her links, but be sure to visit her blog as well for comments there.)
[Folks, I have worked on this for the last two days, I even have LOTS more links, but I am just out of time. Sometimes real work and family have to take priority over blogging.]
Bibliobloggers, creators of posts interesting and challenging, judges of all dilettantes and heretics: I acknowledge and bewail my manifold sins and wickedness, which I have from time to time most grievously committed. I have not read your blogs on a regular basis, I have not commented with consistency, I often have not posted on my own blog. I am truly sorry and I humbly repent. As penance, I make this offering from your own good gifts. Accept them, I ask, in the spirit in which they are intended and add to them also through your comments.
Welcome to the July Biblical Studies Carnival covering the month of June, 2011. As with all Carnivals this one reflects the host so this month it will be all photos and comics…. Not really. Well, not much. I am grateful to those who submitted entries and I encourage anyone who feels I have missed something important to post it in the comments. Questions of translation were big last month (or at least those folks were better at tooting the translation horn). And I know I have missed an awful lot of good discussion. So educate us all, if you don’t mind, and if nothing else, consider each link a reason to go a read whatever that author has on offer.
Trends and being trendy
A few things out of the way first. If you are interested in Zwingli (occasionally), people of Wal-Mart, and the detritus of humanity, you know where to go. And lately Herr Depravity has been rubbing off on Buddy Jesus. #justsoyouknow1
Early in the month, John Hobbins to us why he couldn’t recommend Patheos. It elicited some good discussion and James McGrath defended his move. Ben Myers of Faith and Theology also debated the move, generating just under a 100 comments. He had an invite. Others of us are just bitter. (I am still trying to figure out why so many are now cluttering their links with “NetworkedBlogs.” Those things drive me nuts, but I wonder if they are driving revenue or hits for some?) On other issues of little meaning, June began with a new #1 Biblioblog. I still don’t understand why Alexa doesn’t like me. I send her flowers…
As I have been writing this a flurry of posts have gone up about the Biblioblog Reference Library. Today (July 1) an open letter was posted by the curator, Steve Caruso.
Back to the Bible, First Matters
(I can't remember my source, but I think it is Brad Guigar http://www.evil-comic.com/)
We should begin this section by congratulating John Anderson on his book being in press with Eisenbrauns, Jacob and the Divine Trickster. (He should also be commended for losing 71 pounds! [And that is not Sterling.] Well done mate.) And he is already thinking about God Gone Wild and his next book project.
The aforementioned author of Ancient Hebrew Poetry encouraged us all this month to get our Hebrew on by reading through Genesis. While I am on John’s blog and since I myself have been hard at work translating Targum Ruth, I would be remiss not to point out his several posts on the difficulties of biblical translation (there are lots, click through). One of the reasons I read John is because of his great reflection, but also his links. The article on “Dissatisfaction with the new NIV among Biblical Bloggers” is a great example. (more…)
- Not really into the whole hastag trend myself, particularly not outside of twitter, but Joel did it last month so with a need to be tragically hip, I follow suit. #justsayin [↩]
