Tyler Williams scoops BAR!
Don’t miss Tyler William’s groundbreaking revelation of an amazing, recently discovered artifact. And to think he was able to break the story on Saturday, of all days! I’ll let Tyler tell you all about it, but it puts paid to those foolish minimalists!
Update: In case you haven’t figured it out by the reference to “Saturday, of all days” (which was April 1), the reference to “those foolish minimalists” (which longtime readers of this blog will know is an opinion of minimalists that I don’t hold), by Tyler’s “AF’s Day” tag, and the anachronistic spelling and letterforms, Tyler’s post was a well-executed April Fool’s Day joke!<
1 comments Christopher Heard | Israelite and Judean history, archaeology, miscellany
[...] As for parallel postings or cross-references, it seems pretty clear that “bibliobloggers” are at least still reading and noticing what each other are doing. In the months since the SBL meeting in Philadelphia—tagged by Jim as a watershed—we’ve seen the introduction of the montly Biblical Studies Carnival. April was the fourth month running for the carnival. Tyler Williams’s delightful April Fool’s Day joke certainly received its share of attention in the blogsophere, I thought it was hilarious, though Claude Mariottini may disagree (wink, wink). Speaking of Claude Mariottini, his posts tend to be spurred initially by things interesting him offline, but it wasn’t long ago that his post on the nephilim sparked responses from Joe Cathey and Duane Smith (who probably wouldn’t think of himself as a “biblioblogger”), to which Claude responded in turn. Jim Davila’s posts do tend to be more like news blips instead of conversations with other bloggers, but he’s given a lot of exposure to other bloggers’ comments on the Gospel of Judas, and of course Joe Cathey had his own mini-carnival about Judas a few days ago. Jim recognizes the Gospel of Judas feeding frenzy, but complains: That is, there has been a strange silence among the bibliobloggers in terms of discussion between themselves about the document. All have spoken about it- none have spoken to other bibliobloggers about it. [...]