I just added John’s interview with Cynthia Nielsen, who authors the Per Caritatem blog. It’s a fascinating interview, which you’ll want to read. The interview is located here. Thank you Cynthia for your participation!

I stumbled on Julia M. O’Brien’s eponymously titled blog and added it to our list. I was recently reading her book, Priest and Levite in Malachi, and was fortunate to find her blog. For more information about her scholarship, read her bio page.

I Just added a new link to the site. Helek Tov is a blog by Jeffrey García, who is a PhD candidate under Larry Schiffman at NYU. According to his about page, Jeffrey’s wide-ranging interests include “archaeology in the Hellenistic and Roman Period, Post-Biblical Jewish Literature, Second Temple History, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Historical Jesus, the Synoptic Gospels & Problem, and Rabbinic Literature.”

Cynthia Nielsen, whose wide-ranging blog (Per Caritatem) touches on everything from ancient philosophers to the Old and New Testaments (especially Paul) to modern philosophers and Russian literary figures, has agreed to be interviewed for biblioblogs. Not many Society of Biblical Literature members regularly interact with the scholarship and subject matter of multiple cognate disciplines, much less blog about it, as Nielsen does. Here is her curriculum vitae. The list of the societies of which she is a member is an index of the breadth and depth of her scholarship (in alphabetical order):

  • American Catholic Philosophical Association
  • Calvin Studies Society
  • National Council for Black Studies
  • North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics
  • North Texas Philosophical Association
  • Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology
  • Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
  • Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
  • Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy
  • Society of Biblical Literature

We will post the interview in the middle of May.

I added a link to Kevin Scull’s blog, Paul of Tarsus: In Historical Context. Kevin is a good friend and excellent scholar. He is currently ABD at UCLA studying with Scott Bartchy. I’m sure anyone interested in Paul will enjoy reading his blog and interacting with his fresh analyses of the text.

I just uploaded John’s interview with Simon Holloway, the author of Davar Akher. It is definitely worth reading if you’re fascinated at all with the Hebrew Bible, especially the development and dialects of the Hebrew language, or the book of Nehemiah. Even if these are not your specialties, you’ll find the interview informative and entertaining. I promise. You can read it here.

A few days ago, Jim West informed me that he would like to step down from his editorial position at Biblioblogs.com. Jim’s service to the site has been extraordinary. He conducted our first interview with Stephen Carlson three and half years ago. Since then, he’s conducted dozens of other interviews, helped us maintain a focused and up-to-date set of links, and benefited the blogging community in many other ways. We appreciate all his hard work and he will be missed. He will, however, continue to maintain his own prolific blog (Dr Jim West) which has always held a high place among the biblioblogging world. Thanks Jim!

I’ve added a link to the fairly new Dilettante Hobby Horse Biblioblog. Send the goofy comments you receive over there- the new gathering place of bibloblogdom’s Dreck, and spare your own blog the clog. And thanks to whoever’s behind it. I have an idea or two but further investigation is warranted.

Defunct blogs have been removed (and you’re defunct if there’s no new action in a month) and one new one has been added.

Enjoy.

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