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SBL Handbook of Style
For Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian
StudiesPrice: $24.95
Size: 7 x 9.25
Binding: cloth
Pages: 304
Pub Date: 1999
ISBN: 156563487X
Item Number: 3487X
Categories: General Reference Works; Language and Reference
edited by Patrick Alexander / John F.
Kutsko / Shirley Decker-Lucke / James Ernest, Ph.D. / David Petersen
"The SBL Handbook of Style is an astonishing book, a true
'one-stop' reference for authors preparing manuscripts in biblical
studies and related fields. It covers an amazing range of topics,
from what every literate scholar should know (but may not) to what
only the most erudite expert in an obscure sub-field of the
discipline would be likely to know. Do you need to know how to cite
an internet publication? Whose job it is to prepare the index and
secure permissions? How to alphabetize Abraham ibn Ezra (and why)?
What the abbreviation AAeg stands for? It's all here. This volume
should substantially reduce the incidence of tears and tantrums that
so often beset the process of manuscript preparation. Before long
biblical scholars will wonder how we ever got along without this
indispensable reference work. Every graduate program should make The
SBL Handbook of Style a required text."
-Carol A. Newsom, Professor of Old Testament, Emory University
" . . . A major service for the community of biblical
scholars. This comprehensive but handy stylesheet, building on the
base of the SBL guidelines, incorporates all that most authors and
editors currently need to know about the technical dimensions of
publishing activity, from commas and hyphens to abbreviations, from
transliterations to forms of annotation. All that's left to authors
is to come up with good ideas. All editors have to do is to learn
what is here."
—Harold W. Attridge, Lillian Claus Professor of New
Testament, Yale Divinity School
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