The Most Read Posts in 2015

As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time for that yearly tradition, the Year in Review. Here at the ETC blog we’ve had over 165 posts and over 172,000 hits in 2015 according to Google Analytics. (Blogger stats are much higher because apparently they count bots and spiders.)

So what have been the most read posts here? People are very interested in the oldest NT manuscript. Bart is always popular, but so are the top ten essential works in NT textual criticism and historic editions of the GNT (probably helped by being on the main navigation).

Rank	Title	Hits
1.	Top Ten Essential Works in New Testament Textual Criticism	7,473
2.	Questions about “First Century Mark”	2,814
3.	Breaking News on the First-Century(?) Fragment of Mark	2,272
4.	Historic Editions of the Greek New Testament online	2,096
5.	What is the Oldest Manuscript of the New Testament?	1,743
6.	Review of Bart Ehrman, Misquoting Jesus	1,596
7.	Has anyone seen “First Century Mark”?	1,292
8.	How many books in the New Testament?	983
9.	New NT Papyrus Manuscripts	917
10.	Journal Rankings for New Testament	896

Slightly different, here are the most popular posts written in the last year.

Rank	Title	Hits
1.	Questions about “First Century Mark”	2,814
2.	Historic Editions of the Greek New Testament online	2,096
3.	What is the Oldest Manuscript of the New Testament?	1,743
4.	Has anyone seen “First Century Mark”?	1,292
5.	New NT Papyrus Manuscripts	917
6.	Distribution of New Testament Manuscripts by Century	827
7.	Lunn on the End of Mark. Part 3	798
8.	The Gospel of Jesus Wife and Grondin’s Interlinear	793
9.	A New Papyrus of the Gospel of John	787
10.	How Many Variants Are There in the Greek New Testament?	720

Thanks to all our readers. Happy New Year!