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SBL and Bibliobloggers

Jim West and others have noted the affiliation between bibliobloggers and the Society of Biblical Literature. You can also read the note by Kent Richards in the SBL forum. I’m still not entirely sure what the implications are of such an affiliation, but I do think it is something that should excite us. This represents a recognition from SBL that what we do on biblioblogs works hand in hand with the mission of SBL: to foster biblical scholarship. That’s why most of us blog. So I’m happy to hear about this new affiliation and I look forward to seeing how it affects things. There’s also a badge for bibliobloggers to express this newly forged affiliation, but unfortunately it’s a little bulky and aesthetically challenged, so I probably won’t sport it on my sidebar:

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By brandonw – September 5, 2009

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  1. Bryan says

    I’m glad you said that about the logo, I thought I was the only one!

    September 5, 2009, 5:25 pm Reply

Continuing the Discussion

  1. On the SBL and “Bibliobloggers” « confessions of a bible junkie linked to this post on September 12, 2009

    [...] evolving relationship, but hope for some exciting new developments—are pretty similar to those of Brandon Wason: I’m still not entirely sure what the implications are of such an affiliation, but I do think it [...]

  2. SBL Affiliation Posts Consolidated « Daniel O. McClellan linked to this post on September 12, 2009

    [...] Brandon Wason [...]

  3. Affiliate This! « kata ta biblia linked to this post on September 13, 2009

    [...] Now for the one genuine negative that I see. Bob Cargill said in his post, “affiliation lends legitimacy to the vehicle of blogging.” This can be a problem when it comes to the average student surfing the web looking for legitimate material. Sure, the affiliation and the resulting badge do not mean that the SBL agrees with or officially endorses all content on any blog that is in this affiliation. But say some student is smart enough to use the custom search of biblioblogs to look for material on a given topic. They find some crazy theory by someone way out on the fringes of accepted scholarship (like Brandon, for example ) and assume that it’s acceptable fact because of this affiliation (good thing Brandon won’t put the badge on his blog!). [...]



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