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The SBL Handbook of Style is the definitive style manual on writing and publishing in the field of biblical studies and related disciplines. The updated second edition reflects the latest practices and trends among scholars, editors, and publishers. It also includes key style changes, expanded abbreviation and spelling sample lists, a list of archaeological site names, material on qur’anic...

should conform their manuscripts to the style and format detailed in this volume or in other guidelines supplied by their particular publisher. While proper style and format often concern apparently trivial details, the consequences of inconsistency can be far-reaching. Thus, for example, authors often cite primary sources inconsistently and incorrectly. Consider this: Within a work a scholar could conceivably cite a passage from Josephus’s Antiquities as Ant. X,xiii.1 §258; Antiq. X,13,1; Ant. X.
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