Talk:Society of Biblical Literature

message: Hrafn, I'm struggling to see why this was deleted after adding a tag requesting WP:RS
:The Society of Biblical Literature was founded in 1880 ref Judaica reference sources: a selective, annotated bibliographic guide p102  Charles Cutter - 2004 "The Society of Biblical Literature was founded in 1880 "to advance the public understanding of.."" ref
Cheers In ictu oculi (talk) 05:30, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're going to ressurect ancient history, could you at least provide a dif. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 06:00, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And why did you remove three of four of Wexford Alliance's June 2011 edits + refs? In ictu oculi (talk) 05:40, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the SBL-website/SBL-published refed material due to excessive self-description. I removed the Merrick material because (i) it made no mention of SBL & (ii) its relevance was dependent on the SBL-sourced material. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 06:04, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 1880 ref also removed

message: Hrafn, Please add in these two WP RS with your own copy in place of the copy/content deleted, and restore the download link.
* Quality Research Papers: For Students of Religion and Theology Nancy Jean Vyhmeister - 2009  "The Society of Biblical Literature has developed a style for use in its own publications. Some schools use this style ... If your school uses the SBL style, please refer to The SBL Handbook of Style (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1999)." 
* Studying the historical Jesus: a guide to sources and methods Darrell L. Bock - 2002 "For standard abbreviations of the Old Testament books, see The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies, ed. Patrick H. Alexander et al. (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999), 73"
Thanks. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:51, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Is either the fact that "the Society of Biblical Literature has developed a style for use in its own publications" or that it has developed a list of "standard abbreviations of the Old Testament books" particularly noteworthy? I would suspect that many scholarly societies that publish their own journal in a fairly specialised field would do this. However, lacking much in the way of third-party coverage, I have no problem with you adding this material if you see fit. It does not however come even close to "address[ing] the subject directly in detail" though. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 07:20, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: SBL Handbook of Style, secondary refs

message: When reading a scholarly article or book on the Bible, sometimes I see a footnote labeled SBLMS.  Is this Society of Biblical Literature manuscript?  Can someone define this or translate this for me?  Should this be mentioned in the article?  L. Thomas W. (talk) 14:38, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition or Translation 

message: this needs to be updated, and a new page dedicated to The SBL Handbook of Style should be created, especially because SBL has finally updated its 15-year-old handbook. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eshelley509 (talk • contribs) 13:09, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update