I\u2019m making the remaining awards mainly to Biblical scholars with blogs that make a contribution to the quality of discussion in the blogosphere of the Bible and other ancient literature from the same time period:<\/p>\n Mark Goodacre \u2013 who is certainly a pioneer in the realm of web resources for Biblical studies and biblioblogging \u2013 for his NT Gateway<\/a>.<\/p>\n April DeConick\u2019s Forbidden Gospels<\/a><\/p>\n Christopher Heard\u2019s Higgaion<\/a><\/p>\n John Hobbins\u2019 Ancient Hebrew Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n Jim Davila\u2019s Paleojudaica <\/a><\/p>\n Duane Smith\u2019s Abnormal Interests<\/a> <\/p>\n Jim Crossley\u2019s Earliest Christian History<\/a><\/p>\n Stephen Cook\u2019s Biblische Ausbildung<\/a><\/p>\n Doug Chapin\u2019s Metacatholic<\/a> <\/p>\n It was hard to limit myself to these ten. Even among those blogs that deal with topics related to Biblical scholarship, there are others that deserve mention, like Scot McKnight\u2019s Jesus Creed<\/a>, Sansblogue<\/a>, Targuman<\/a> and Evangelical Textual Criticism<\/a>. If I nominated you and you value those blogs, perhaps you\u2019ll award them!<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to thank Ian for awarding me (or should that be \u201cinfecting me with\u201d?) the \u201cRated E for Excellent\u201d award \u2013 which is also a meme, since you then pass it on to ten other blogs, and so on until the word \u201cexcellent\u201d in reference to blogs eventually loses all meaning, or the meme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i111.photobucket.com\/albums\/n136\/Xisla\/excellentblog-awardFeb08.jpg\")
<\/a>
I\u2019d like to make the first award to Jim West<\/a>, who is on his third blog (that I\u2019m aware of), the previous one having recently been maliciously hacked. Although his latest blog is \u2018new\u2019, surely a sequel will always be as good as its predecessor, right? \ud83d\ude42 Plus, I know how much Jim loves<\/em> memes\u2026<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-6140262595198881003?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")