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18-642: SBL may refer to: Society of Biblical Literature Spamhaus Block List of spamming IP addresses Stadium Builder License ( personal seat license ), to buy season tickets Super Bowl L, officially known as Super Bowl 50 Supreme Beings of Leisure , an electronic/lounge band Svenskt biografiskt lexikon , the Dictionary of Swedish National Biography Sports leagues [ edit ] Slovak Basketball League Southland Bowling League , US women's college conference State Basketball League , former name of

36-522: A Unitarian , Ezra Abbott . The society's development was contemporary with increasing interest in Ancient Near East studies. The society shortened its name to Society of Biblical Literature in 1962. The Society of Biblical Literature has published the flagship Journal of Biblical Literature since 1881. Additionally, it publishes the Review of Biblical Literature . It publishes literature under

54-639: A geographic area within North America who promote biblical scholarship on a local level. Each region is coordinated by a scholar within the region, and regions promote "Regional Scholars" to recognize outstanding scholars in the area. Society of Biblical Literature regions include the Central States, Eastern Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, New England & Eastern Canada, Pacific Coast, Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains & Great Plains, Southeastern, Southwestern, and Upper Midwest. The International Meeting

72-538: A vendor floor; and more. The meeting consists of "more than 1,200 academic sessions, and workshops, along with one of the world's largest exhibits of books and digital resources for biblical studies, the Annual Meetings is one of the largest events of the year in the fields of biblical scholarship, religious studies and theology." In addition to the annual meeting, multiple regional and an international meetings are held each year. Regional meetings consist of scholars in

90-499: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Society of Biblical Literature The Society of Biblical Literature ( SBL ), founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis , is an American-based learned society dedicated to the academic study of the Bible and related ancient literature. Its current stated mission

108-562: Is downloadable, and also contains recommendations for transliteration standards. In 2011, the society was awarded a $ 300,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce Bible Odyssey , "an interactive website that brings nonsectarian biblical scholarship to the general public". In 2016, the Society of Biblical Literature published a jobs report in conjunction with

126-565: Is held annually in a location outside of North America specifically for scholars outside the US. Secretary Recording Secretary Executive Secretary Executive Director Ezra Abbot Abbot was born at Jackson, Maine , April 28, 1819; son of Ezra and Phebe Abbot. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1840. In 1847, at the request of Andrews Norton , he went to Cambridge, Massachusetts where he

144-508: Is to "foster biblical scholarship". Membership is open to the public and consists of over 8,300 individuals from over 100 countries. As a scholarly organization, SBL has been a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies since 1929. Calvin Stowe , husband of novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe , served as Professor of Biblical Literature at the innovative Lane Seminary —at

162-526: The American Academy of Religion that provided employment data from the 2014–15 academic year. One of the most important functions of the Society of Biblical Literature is hosting its annual meeting. The annual meeting is hosted in the United States and attended by a majority of SBL members. The meeting includes presentations of research; voting on business matters of the society; workshops and seminars;

180-707: The Harvard Divinity School . Abbot's studies were chiefly in Southwest Asian languages and textual criticism of the New Testament, though his work as a bibliographer showed such results as the exhaustive list of writings (5300 in all) on the doctrine of the future life, appended to W. R. Alger 's History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, as it has prevailed in all Nations and Ages (1862), and published separately in 1864. Abbot's publications, though always of

198-618: The Bible (1867–1870), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work. He was an efficient member of the American revision committee for the Revised Version (1881–1885) of the King James Bible , and helped prepare Caspar René Gregory 's Prolegomena to the revised Greek New Testament of Constantin von Tischendorf . He

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216-409: The end of the year, membership had grown to forty-five and publication of the meeting proceedings was in the planning stages. The Journal of Biblical Literature ( JBL ) was launched the following year. The SBL was not the first association dedicated to biblical studies in North America, but it was the first that was interdenominational . The thirty-two founding members of SBL in 1880 even included

234-413: The imprint SBL Press . The SBL Handbook of Style is a style manual specifically for the fields of ancient Near Eastern, biblical , and early Christian studies. The SBL Handbook of Style includes recommended standard formats for the abbreviation of primary sources. The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) refers writers to The SBL Handbook "for authoritative guidance". The "Student Supplement"

252-406: The most thorough and scholarly character, were to a large extent dispersed in the pages of reviews, dictionaries, concordances, texts edited by others, Unitarian controversial treatises, etc. However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation (with Baptist scholar Horatio Balch Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. (afterwards Sir) William Smith 's Dictionary of

270-622: The time one of the nation's leading seminaries—in the 1830s. The eight founders of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis first met to discuss their new society in Philip Schaff 's study in New York City in January 1880. In June of that year, the group had its first annual meeting with eighteen people in attendance. The new society drew up a constitution and by-laws and discussed several papers. Membership dues were set at three dollars. By

288-626: The west conference of NBL1 in Western Australia Super Basketball League , Taiwan Swiss Basketball League Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title SBL . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SBL&oldid=1188506204 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

306-479: Was one of the 32 founding members of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1880. His principal single work, representing his scholarly method and conservative conclusions, was The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel: External Evidences (1880; 2nd ed. by J. H. Thayer, with other essays, 1889), originally a lecture. In spite of the compression due to its form, this work was up to that time probably

324-455: Was principal of a public school until 1856. He was assistant librarian of Harvard University from 1856 to 1872, and planned and perfected an alphabetical card catalog, combining many of the advantages of the ordinary dictionary catalogs with the grouping of the minor topics under more general heads, which is characteristic of a systematic catalogue. From 1872 until his death he was Bussey Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation in

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