This year I missed, not only the whole of SBL, but the bibliobloggers lunch, I blame the cost of airfares from deepest Middle Earth, as well as the fact that SBL was early this year and no way could I finish marking before it, however Jim has come to the rescue with a proposal for the Boston Biblioblogger Bash apparently there are hordes of publishers dying to get on the blog bandwagon, and fund the do. I haven't seen anyone else join Jim's campaign, but I'm all for a free lunch. So, link to Jims's post, if we all link the words biblical studies publisher then that is bound to come top on Google for searches for "biblical studies publisher" and someone will take pity on us!

BTW I know that there is such a thing as a free lunch (despite the first law of thermodynamics) because I regularly organise PodBible Free Lunches ;-)