Society of Biblical Literature

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The Society of Biblical Literature ( SBL ), founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis , is a scientific society with the aim of promoting biblical studies using the historical-critical method .

history

The eight founding members of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis met in January 1880 in Philip Schaff's study in New York . In June of that year the group held its first annual meeting, attended by eighteen people. They drew up statutes and discussed several working papers. The membership fee was set at three dollars . At the end of 1880 the membership had grown to 45 people, and the publication of the results of the conference was in preparation. In 1881 the journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis was published for the first time , which has been published since 1890 under the title Journal of Biblical Literature (JBL).

Although the SBL was not the first society in North America to devote itself to biblical studies, it was the first non-denominational society of its kind. Ezra Abbott was also a Unitarian among the 32 founding members in 1880 . The time of its foundation was marked by an increasing interest in the ancient Orient . It was then that Francis Brown began offering Akkadian courses at Union Seminary .

The Society of Biblical Literature has been a member of the American Council of Learned Societies since 1929 .

Membership is open to everyone and includes more than 8,500 people from over 80 countries.

Publications

Since 1881 the Society of Biblical Literature has published the Journal of Biblical Literature , until 1890 under the title Journal of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis . The Review of Biblical Literature is published as a supplement . The company produces its own publications through SBL Press.

The The SBL Handbook of Style is a manual of style for publications in the fields of Ancient Near East, biblical studies and Early Christianity. It contains the recommended standards for abbreviations of primary sources.

In 2011, the Society received a $ 300,000 award from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the production of Bible Odyssey , an interactive website designed to promote the knowledge of academic exegetes to the public.

literature

  • Frank Ritchel Ames, Charles William Miller (Eds.): Foster Biblical Scholarship: Essays in Honor of Kent Harold Richards. SBL Biblical Scholarship in North America 24. Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta 2010, ISBN 978-1-58983-534-4 ( online ).
  • Harold W. Attridge, James C. VanderKam (Eds.): Presidential Voices: The Society of Biblical Literature in the Twentieth Century. SBL Biblical Scholarship in North America 22. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006, ISBN 1-58983-259-0 ( online ).
  • Ernest W. Saunders: Searching the Scriptures: A History of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1880-1980. SBL Biblical Scholarship in North America 8th Scholars Press, Chico, CA 1982, ISBN 978-0891305910 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernest W. Saunders: Searching the Scriptures: A History of the Society of Biblical Literature, 1880–1980. SBL Biblical Scholarship in North America 8th Scholars Press, Chico, CA 1982, ISBN 978-0891305910 .
  2. ^ A b The Society of Biblical Literature. JSTOR , accessed March 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frank Ritchel Ames, Charles William Miller: Foster Biblical Scholarship: Essays in Honor of Kent Harold Richards. 2010, p. 68
  4. ^ Richard Thomas Hughes: The American quest for the primitive church. 1988, p. 90
  5. ^ William Rainey Harper, Ernest De Witt Burton, Shailer Mathews: The Biblical world. 1912, p. 39
  6. ^ SBL on the official website of the American Council of Learned Societies .
  7. ^ SBL membership , Society of Biblical Literature
  8. ↑ SBL Press Homepage
  9. ^ The SBL Handbook of Style. Ed. Society of Biblical Literature. 2nd Edition. SBL Press, Atlanta 2014.
  10. ↑ NEH gov April 2011 grants State by State ( Memento from May 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ http://www.bibleodyssey.org