The Pontifical Biblical Institute website reports that in 2013 they divided the series Analecta Biblica into two sections: Dissertationes and Studia. The Dissertationes section “is composed only of doctoral dissertations,” while the Studia section “is composed of monographs by professors or of collections of studies by an individual scholar or … a variety of scholars” … Continue reading Analecta Biblica

SBLHS §§8.4.1–2 contain the preferred abbreviation for the series Studia Pohl, published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute: StPohl. Lacking, however, is an abbreviation for the Studia Pohl subseries Series Maior. For those unfamiliar with that subseries, the Pontifical Biblical Institute website explains: “This subseries of the Pontifical Biblical Institute has been separated from Studia Pohl … Continue reading Studia Pohl and Studia Pohl Series Maior

The Studia Philonica Annual, published by SBL Press, is a journal dedicated to the writings of Philo of Alexandria and Hellenistic Judaism more generally. It began in 1972 as Studia Philonica (SPhilo) and became known as the Studia Philonica Annual in 1989. For more on the history of the journal, see here. Prior to the … Continue reading The Studia Philonica Annual

Many journals have supplement book series associated with them. The abbreviations for these series generally include the journal abbreviation + “Sup” (in roman type). For example, the SBLHS 2 §§8.4.1–2 list the following examples: AbrN Abr-Nahrain AbrNSup Abr-Nahrain Supplements BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research BASORSup Bulletin of the American Schools of … Continue reading Supplement Series

Frequent users of SBLHS 2 probably have noticed the following two abbreviations in §§8.4.1–2: OTS Old Testament Studies OtSt Oudtestamentische Studiën Many probably also wondered why a single book series is given two abbreviations that appear to contradict each other: the first abbreviation and title is set roman, which is the proper style for a … Continue reading OTS versus OtSt

SBL Press proposes to add several abbreviations to the next edition of SBLHS. Neither the series Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi nor its three divisions are listed in SBLHS 2, but all are listed in Schwertner 2014. We thus propose to adapt the Schwertner abbreviations to SBLHS style as follows: BCNH Bibliothèque copte de Nag … Continue reading Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi

SBL style uses roman type, not italics, for series titles (see §6.2.24). Please be aware that the following series are incorrectly italicized in the SBLHS 2 §8.4.1 and/or §8.4.2: AnOr Analecta Orientalia BaF Baghdader Forschungen BBRSup Bulletin for Biblical Research Supplements BPOA Biblioteca del Proximo Oriente Antiguo Ebib Études bibliques GNS Good News Studies IOS … Continue reading Citing Series and Journals