Biblioblog Ranking for July

It is an utterly incredible period for me. My book is hovering around 30,000 place on Amazon during the week (the weekends are strangely much worse), I am in active negotiations with a cable network to do a documentary about my book and this blog ranked a 124th in the recent Biblioblog rankings, my first month being ranked.

Now I know some people (my wife for instance) will say 'so what' to all of this. My book is not a bestseller, I don't have the documentary green lit yet nor indeed is 124th place very impressive. Yet the way I look at it, my blog here is very different than all those other sites I am ranked against.

I represent a dead religious tradition.

Unlike other bloggers who turn their blog into a kind of electronic newspaper for the internet telling everyone about the 'latest happenings' in the world of Biblical studies, my blog features my daily observations and my constant re-working of my ideosyncratic hypothesis about the origins of Christianity.

The fact that I have 4,500 page views in a month to learn more about my dead religion is simply amazing to me. I get to corresponded with a lot of amazing, intelligent people. I get instant feedback about many of my ideas. This is better than sex (although the only sex I ever participated in had me as an active participant, so you can see right there why I might not have enjoyed it so much)...