Canter Bridge

As the premier North-American-based professional association of biblical scholars, the Society of Biblical Literature (‘SBL’) not only publishes the prestigious and tightly-edited Journal of Biblical Literature (‘JBL’); its influence has a knock-on effect on other journals in this and ancillary fields.

Thus, the imperative of an authoritative ‘SBL’ style guide is obvious. Not so evident is how we lived without a full style guide for so many years until this superb collaborative project between SBL and Hendrickson Publishers emerged.

The editors have removed one of our last remaining excuses for sloppiness and inconsistency. I suppose we owe them our thanks …