{"id":3193,"date":"2008-12-26T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-roundup\/"},"modified":"2008-12-26T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T22:30:00","slug":"on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/on-the-trail-of-nt-wrong-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"On the Trail of NT Wrong: Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>My quest for the historical NT Wrong <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">began<\/a> on a whim, after being surprised how often the subject of NT Wrong\u2019s identity came up in conversation with other bibliobloggers. I decided to take some of the extremely implausible theories I\u2019d had fun concocting in my mind and share them with a wider audience. I ignored the very obvious possibility that NT Wrong is a pseudonym for someone who does not already have another blog. It was more fun that way. I also thought about investigating myself, in a fashion that involved a <em>My Own Worst Enemy<\/em> scenario, but decided the series had gone on long enough. But a sequel is never out of the question (as we know from those instances when it wasn\u2019t but should have been).<\/p>\n<p>The candidates for Wrongdom I investigated included <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Goodacre<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-2.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-3.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">J. C. Baker<\/a>, the Emperor Nero (still not quite dead), <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-4.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Cave<\/a>, the Ecclesiastical Redactor, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-5.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tilling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-6.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Verenna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-7.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Crossley<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-8.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Guild of Biblical Minimalists<\/a>, Dan Brown, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-4815162342.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">my future self<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-9-34.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">R. A. Montgomery<\/a> (in a choose your own adventure blogging scenario that <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2001\/01\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-part-4815162343.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">left some readers stranded in the past<\/a>), with some concluding reflections by <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/on-trail-of-nt-wrong-this-one-goes-up.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Albert Schweitzer<\/a>. If a sequel is ever in view, I will of course include Michael Halcomb, April DeConick, Ken Schenck and <a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/03\/oh-dorothy-why-do-you-do-this-to-me\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jessica Simpson<\/a>, to name a few.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4375313575020244709?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My quest for the historical NT Wrong began on a whim, after being surprised how often the subject of NT Wrong\u2019s identity came up in conversation with other bibliobloggers. I decided to take some of the extremely implausible theories I\u2019d had fun concocting in my mind and share them with a wider audience. 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