July was the second best month ever for this blog. We had 57,910 unique visitors (essentially different people) to the site during the month racking up 116,066 page views. I have, over the life of the blog, made more than 3000 postings and there have been a few guest postings. You have made 30,309 comments. (Many times that number of comments have been discarded as attempted spam. I spend time every day trashing attempts to sneak in.)
808 people have opted in to be notified by email when something is posted or commented upon. Who-knows how many more are notified through RSS feeds, blog watcher apps, twitter, facebook, etc.
Here are the postings with the most comments ever:
- Discussion about the Pray Codex and its relation to the Shroud is over? (551 Comments)
- Concerning the absence of an image of the top of the head on the Shroud of Turin and the possible presence of blood in this area (276 Comments)
- Blood Clotting and the Strange Case of Brother Hirudo (263 Comments)
- Cat Among the Pigeons (229 Comments)
- A Guest Posting by Yannick Clément: Two Quotes About the Blood (225 Comments)
- Guest Posting: Challenging Frederick Zugibe on Washing of the Body (218 Comments)
- An Important and Highly Informative Guest Posting by Paul Maloney (191 Comments)
- A Guest Posting: Ten Questions for Alan Adler by Kelly Kearse (177 Comments)
- The Shroud of Turin Blimp (176 Comments)
- Significant Endorsement: Former Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury backs The Shroud Affair (165 Comments)
- It’s a negative. It’s 3D. Yes? Maybe? Sort Of? (156 Comments)
But those are just indications. The true measure is intellectual clarity and truly open discussions.
Quite correct,intellectual clarity and truly open discussions are very important. That is how we make progress. We even see it in some areas of biblical studies.
The editor of the “Jewish Annotated New Testament” has written a new book, this time on the parables of Jesus:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061561010/ref=s9_newr_co_d10_g14_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-1&pf_rd_r=1S1ZP085PQJR5YENAV6A&pf_rd_t=3201&pf_rd_p=1774864282&pf_rd_i=typ01
First of all :
Great job, Dan !!!
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Perhaps I am a bit nitpicker, but …
I am still curious about the book :
The Jewish Annotated New Testament Hardcover – November 15, 2011
by
Amy-Jill Levine
>Although major New Testament figures — Jesus and Paul, Peter and James,
Jesus’ mother Mary and Mary Magdalene — were Jews, living in a culture steeped
in Jewish history, beliefs, and practices, there has never been an edition
of the New Testament that addresses its Jewish background and the culture
from which it grew — until now.
>In The Jewish Annotated New Testament,
eminent experts under the general editorship of Amy-Jill Levine and
Marc Z. Brettler put these writings back into the context of their original authors
and audiences.
>And they explain how these writings have affected the relations of
Jews and Christians over the past two thousand years. … … …
link:
http://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Annotated-New-Testament/dp/0195297709/ref=la_B001H9TWM0_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406910993&sr=1-1
Congratulations Dan, and thanks for the hard work and dedication in maintaining this blog.
Here here. You do a great job Dan
Is there a difference between Amy-Jill Levine’s version and “The Jewish New Testament,” by David H. Stern, copyright 1989, that was translated to express its Jewishness?
Congratulations, Dan!
You’ve spent a great deal of time and effort on this website. :)