Are you familiar with the "Best Blogs about Biblical Studies" community ranking/list thing going on at Amazon's UnSpun?

Somehow, ricoblog is placed barely in the top 10 at #9 (and that has been fairly steady since late last week). There are, at present, over 100 blogs listed. I am amazed, humbled and flattered all at the same time.

I'm unsure how to receive this. Part of me thinks "what are people thinking?!"; the other part thinks "my, there are a bunch of smart, well-informed and intellectually curious folks ranking those blogs".

I think I'll choose the second part.

Side note, though. Have you checked the individual rankings of folks in the "Most recently ranked by" list on the right margin of the page? Many folks have only voted for one or two blogs, and most of those seem to be associated with the voter. (Hey, I'm guilty of this too, see?) So it looks like the people who take the time to rank are more interested in making sure their own stuff is near the top; they're not necessarily interested in ranking blogs. That said, however, the ones rising to the top seem to be those that are ranked well by non-blog-authors.

In the "Why aren't they ranked higher?" department, here are the blogs that have low rankings that I just don't get. You should read these (at least have 'em on your feed) if you don't already:

• Biblicalia
• Thoughts on Antiquity

Here's the list at present:

Update (2007-04-24): Link changed from "Top 50 ... " to "Best Blogs about Biblical Studies". Apologies to Airton for getting it wrong the first time.