Biblical Studies Carnival Master List

Before 2005, there were Christian Carnivals, although I do not know when that ended. (See the evidence for their existence here and here). Can anyone fill me in on the oral history of the Christian Carnival? Before 2012, Jim Linville kept the list of Biblical Studies Carnivals. When Jim retired from this role in August 2012, I volunteered to be the “keeper of the carnival list.” This means I try to draft people into volunteering to host the Biblical Studies Carnival.

Several people have lamented the dearth of scholarly blogs on biblical and theological topics. Some scholars have abandoned blogging or moved on to other projects. Others migrated to podcasting or other platforms.

I have three suggestions:

  • First, it has been four years since the Biblioblog Top 50 was updated. Determining what a “top bibliblog” was always a controversial dark art. It might be easier to find criteria for analyzing the words of Jesus than for determining a “Top 50” list. Nevertheless, if anyone wants to take a shot at it, I would love to see an updated Top 50.
  • Second, the Complete List of Biblioblogs is woefully out of date. Is there anyone with some technical skills and an interest in working with this master list? Perhaps a website with a form for new submissions?
  • Third, I think there is a place for a Memorial section. Several bloggers have passed away, and there is little way to inform the community.

A word about numbering. These are the official numbers, even if they do not match what a host says for 2018-2019. At some point in 2018, there was some confusion about who was scheduled to host the carnival, resulting in a mix-up in the numbering of the carnivals. This was entirely my fault; I failed to update my schedule properly and double-booked for April 2019. Bob MacDonald sorted all this out, and these are the official numbers. Confused? Think of it like the difference in chapters between the Masoretic text of Jeremiah and the Septuagint.  No one understands that either.

Biblical Studies Carnival Master List

Phillip Long, Reading Acts – March 2023
Ben the Amateur Exegete  – February 2023
Heather Thiessen, Matters of Interpretation – January 2023
Jim West – Zwingli Redividus  – December 2022
Phillip Long, Reading Acts – November 2022
Jim West – Zwingli Redividus  – October 2022
Bob MacDonald at Dust – September  2022
Ben the Amateur Exegete  – August 2022
Phillip Long, Reading Acts – July 2022
John MacDonald – The Secular Frontier – June 2022
Bob MacDonald – Dust – May 2022
Brent Niedergall – April 2022
Ben – The Amateur Exegete – March 2022
Bobby Howell – The Library Musings – February 2022
Jim West – Zwingli Redividus – January 2022
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – December 2021
Bob MacDonald at Dust – November 2021
Jim West – Zwingli Redivivus – October 2021
Ben at The Amateur Exegete – September 2021
Brent Niedergall – August 2021
Kenson Gonzalez – Viviendo Para Su Gloria – June 2021
Jim West – Zwingli Redivivus – June 2021
Bobby Howell – The Library Musings – May 2021
Ruben Rus – Ayuda Ministerial/Resources for Ministry – April 2021
Ben at The Amateur Exegete – March 2021
Bob MacDonald – Dust February 2021
Jim West, Zwingli Redivivus – January 2021
Peter Goeman – December 2020
Bobby Howell, The Library Musings – November 2020
Jim West, Zwingli Redivivus – October 2020
Brent Niedergall – September 2020
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – August 2020
Bob MacDonald, Dust – July 2020
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – June 2020
Bobby Howell, The Library Musings, May 2020
Peter Goeman, Peter Goeman, April 2020
Brent Niedergall – March 2020
Bob MacDonald, Dust – February 2020
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – January 2020
Alex Finkelson, Scribes of the Kingdom, December 2019
Derek DeMars, Theology Pathfinder – November 2019
Gary Greenberg, Bible, Myth, and History – October 2019
Phillip Long, Reading Acts – September 2019
Ben at The Amateur Exegete, August 2019
Lindsay Kennedy, My Digital Seminary – July 2019
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – June 2019
Dr. Claude Mariottini – May 2019
Dr. Claude Mariottini – April 2019 and Christopher Scott
Spencer Robinson, Spoiled Milks – March 2019
Bob MacDonald, Dust – February 2019
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – January 2019
Christopher L. Scott – December 2018
Bob MacDonald, Dust – November 2018
Jacob Prahlow, Pursuing Veritas – October 2018
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – September 2018
Kevin Turner, Monday Morning Theologian August 2018
Karen R. Keen – July 2018
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – June 2018
Tim Bulkeley, 5 Minute Bible – May 2018
Rubén de Rus, Ayuda Ministerial – April 2018
Jim West, Zwingius Redivivus – March 2018
Jacob Prahlow, Pursuing Veritas – February 2018
Bob MacDonald, Dust – January 2018
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – December 2017.
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – November 2017
Doug Chaplin, Musings of a Christian Humanist – October 2017
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – September 2017
Jason Gardner, eis doxan – August 2017
Rubén de Rus, Ayuda Ministerial – July 2017
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – June 2017
Jeff Carter, thatjeffcarterwashere – May 2017
Joshua Kovacs, Theologians Inc – April 2017
Jonathan Robinson, ξἐνος  – March 2017
Jacob Prahlow, Pursuing Veritas – February 2017
Cassandra Farrin, Westar Institute – January 2017
Jennifer Guo – December 2016
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – November 2016
Bob MacDonald – October 2016
Randy McCracken, Bible Study with Randy – September 2016
Kevin Turner, Monday Morning Theologian – August 2016
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – July 2016
Chris Lyle, Old School Script – June 2016
Brian Renshaw – May 2016
Jeff Carter, thatjeffcarterwashere – April 2016
Bishop Wrong, N.T. Wrong – March 2016
Jacob Prahlow, Pursuing Veritas – February 2016
Tim Bulkeley, Sansblogue – January 2016
Jennifer Guo – December 2015
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – November 2015
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – October 2015
William Hart Brown – September 2015
Bob MacDonald, Dust – August 2015
Lindsay Kennedy, My Digital Seminary – July 2015
William A. Ross  – June 2015
Claude Mariottini – May 2015
Jeff Carter, That Jeff Carter Was Here – April 2015
 Jacob Prahlow, Pursuing Veritas – March 2015
Jennifer Guo – February 2015
Darrell J. Pursiful, Dr. Platypus – January 2015
Daniel N. Gullotta – December 2014
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – November 2014
Brian Renshaw – October 2014
Mike Skinner, Cataclysmic – September 2014
Rob Bradshaw, Biblical Studies Blog – August 2014
Jonathan Homrighausen, Linguae Antiquitatum – July 2014
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – June 2014
Jeff Carter, That Jeff Carter Was Here – May 2014
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – April 2014
Bob MacDonald, Dust – March 2014
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – February 2014
Brian Renshaw, NT Exegesis – January 2014
Jessica Parks, Cataclysmic – December 2013
Mitch Chase, Soli Deo Gloria – November 2013
Brian W. Davidson, LXXI – October 2013
Chad Chambers, Cataclysmic – September 2013
Brian LePort, Near Emmaus – August 2013
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – July 2013
Andrew King, The Blog of the Twelve – June 2013
Jeff Carter, That Jeff Carter Was Here – May 2013
Jacob Cerone, ἐνθύμησις – April 2013
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – March 2013
Drewe Zenki, Delving into the Scriptures – February 2013
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – January 2013
Abram K-J, Words on the Word – December 2012
Bob MacDonald, Dust – November 2012
J. K. Gayle, BLT – October 2012
Tim Bulkeley, Sansblogue – September 2012
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – August 2012
Phillip J. Long, Reading Acts – July 2012
Mike Kok, Euangelion Kata Markon – June 2012
Rodney A. Thomas, Political Jesus – May 2012
Jonathan Robinson, ξἐνος – April 2012
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – March 2012
Duane Smith, Abnormal Interests – February 2012
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – January 2012
Jim Linville, Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop – December 2011
Deane Galbraith, Remnant of Giants – November 2011
Tom Verenna – October 2011
Scott Bailey, Scotteriology – September 2011
James McGrath, Exploring Our Matrix – August 2011 Part 1    Part 2
Daniel O. McClellan – July 2011
Christian Brady, Targuman – June 2011
Joel Watts, Unsettled Christianity  – May 2011
Jim Linville, Dr Jim’s Thinking Shop – April 2011
Darrell Pursiful, Dr. Platypus – March 2011
Matthew Crowe, A Fistful of Farthings – February 2011
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – January 2011
Joseph Kelly, כל־האדם – December 2010
Deane Galbraith, Religion Bulletin – November 2010
Jonathan Robinson, Xenos | ξἐνος – October 2010
Stephen Demmler, You Can’t Mean That! – September 2010
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – August 2010
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – July 2010
Jim West, Zwinglius Redivivus – March 2010
G. Brooke Lester, Anumma – February 2010
Duane Smith, Abnormal Interests – January 2010
Tyler Williams, Codex – December 2009
Doug Chaplin, clayboy – November 2009
Kevin Scull, Paul of Tarsus – October 2009
Daniel & Tonya, Hebrew and Greek Reader – September 2009
Michael Kok, The Golden Rule – August 2009
Jim West, Dr. Jim West – July 2009
Pat McCullough, kata ta biblia – June 2009
Jim Getz, Ketuvim – May 2009
James McGrath, Exploring Our Matrix – April 2009
James Gregory, James Gregory’s Blog – March 2009
Darrell Pursiful, Dr. Platypus – February 2009
Judy Redman, Judy’s Research Blog – January 2009
Bishop Wrong, N.T. Wrong – December 2008
Jim West, Dr. Jim West – November 2008
Duane Smith, Abnormal Interests – October 2008
Doug Chaplin, MetaCatholic – September 2008
T. Michael W. Halcomb, pisteuomen | πιστευομεν – August 2008
John Hobbins, Ancient Hebrew Poetry – July 2008
James R. Getz, Ketuvim – June 2008
Tyler F. Williams, Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot – May 2008
Jim West, Dr. Jim West – April 2008
Chris Weimer, Thoughts on Antiquity – March 2008
Kevin Wilson, Blue Cord – February 2008
Kevin Edgecomb, Biblicalia – January 2008
Christian Brady, Targuman – December 2007
Doug Chaplin, MetaCatholic – November 2007
John Hobbins, Ancient Hebrew Poetry – October 2007
Tim Bulkeley, Sansblogue – September 2007
Duane Smith, Abnormal Interests – August 2007
Claude Mariottini, Dr. Claude Mariottini – July 2007
Stephen L. Cook, Biblische Ausbildung – June 2007
Danny Zacharias, Deinde – May 2007
Christopher Heard, Higgaion – April 2007
Brandon Wason, Novum Testamentum – March 2007
Charles Halton, Awilum.com – February 2007
Chris Weimer, Thoughts on Antiquity – January 2007
Tyler F. Williams, Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot – December 2006
Jim West, Dr Jim West – November 2006
Michael Pahl, The Stuff of Earth – October 2006
Phil Harland, Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean – September 2006
Stephen Carlson, Hypotyposeis – August 2006
Kevin Edgecomb, Biblicalia – July 2006
Chip Hardy, Daily Hebrew – June 2006
Benjamin Myers, Faith and Theology – May 2006
Kevin Wilson, Blue Cord – April 2006
Loren Rosson III, The Busybody – March 2006
Rick Brannan, Ricoblog – February 2006
Tyler F. Williams, Codex Blogspot – January 2006
Joel Ng, Ebla Logs – March 2005

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