Here is the complete list. Why not add some of them to your Feedly reader?
- Zwinglius Redivivus
- Bible Places
- Teknia
- Reading Acts
- Deep Bible Study
- Unsettled Christianity
- Bible Geek Gone Wild
- Near Emmaus
- The Naked Bible
- Sansblogue
- 5 Minute Bible
- Biblioblog Top 50
- Andy Naselli
- Larry Hurtado
- The Sacred Page
- Joshua L. Mann
- Diaspora
- XKV8R
- Tabor Blog
- The Bible in Church and Academy
- Ferrell’s Travel Blog
- New Life
- Words on the Word
- Ancient Hebrew Poetry
- NT Blog
- Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman
- Crux Sola
- Daniel B. Wallace
- Evangelical Textual Criticism
- Common Denominator
- Claude Mariottini
- biblicalia
- Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth
- Philip Harland
- Political Jesus
- Blog of the Twelve
- The Book of Doctrines and Opinions
- The Biblical World
- Better Bibles Blog
- Brice C. Jones
- NT Resources
- Apocryphicity
- Hypotyposeis
- LXXI
- Heavenly Ascents
- Daniel O. McClellan
- PaleoJudaica
- The Musings of Tom Verenna
- Chrisendom
- Vridar
Traffic data compiled from Alexa Rankings. Complete list of biblioblogs cribbed from the official top 50 biblioblogs site, which is, interestingly, #12 itself on this list.
Some websites have been left out, notably those on Patheos because Alexa does not have separate data on these blogs. No offense is intended to bloggers on these platforms.
Alexa isn’t really a precise tool, but it does give a ballpark estimate (as long as nobody is manipulating it). It depends on counting website impressions of people who’ve installed the Alexa toolbar.
The rankings don’t tell the whole story. The traffic itself follows a power law curve. This means that, with every ranking increase, the increase in traffic becomes greater. It also means that a lot of blogs aren’t read very widely. Although there are many power law curves that vary regarding just how steep they are, most people have heard of the power law curve in the form of the “80-20 rule” illustrated below.
(The bloggers in the graphs above are mentioned for their accomplishments with respect and by way of illustration.)
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Is there a particular reason why all the blogs at Patheos were left off, such as Jesus Creed as well as my own Exploring Our Matrix? 🙁
As mentioned, I wasn’t able to rank them because Alexa doesn’t have any particular data on Patheos blogs. This also affected users of Livejournal. Apparently, WordPress and Blogspot blogs are tabulated separately by Alexa just fine, but, otherwise, it just shows data by domain name.
You’re definitely up there, no doubt about it. 🙂
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