The mission of the Society of Biblical Literature is to foster biblical scholarship. To that end, these are resources to assist those researching and writing papers in biblical studies.
Resources for Research
Web links for research – Need help getting started with your research? This page will direct you to a number of web links. Categorized by subject, it can help you start to find information and resources for your paper.
Journal of Biblical Literature - The flagship journal of the field, the
Journal of Biblical Literature is published quarterly and includes scholarly articles and critical notes by members of the Society. The journal is available online for current members, and past issues may be accessed through JSTOR.
Review of Biblical Literature - The
Review of Biblical Literature, the premier source of biblical studies book reviews in the world. The RBL database currently offers reviews of over 3,000 titles in all areas of biblical studies. The RBL is available online with free access to all.
Tyndale Archive of Biblical Studies - This is an excellent collection of online versions of lexica for languages related to biblical studies. Though these are not necessarily the most current lexica, they represent tremendously important works and are an outstanding resource for working in the languages of biblical studies, including biblical and rabbinnic Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic, Syriac, and Arabic.
Resources for Writing Papers
Biblical Fonts for writing papers – SBL distributes a number of fonts for use with biblical and ancient languages. SBL Hebrew is a new, Unicode-compatible font that is among the most advanced fonts available in any language. SBL also continues to distribute the SP font series, which contains fonts for a number of languages important for biblical studies.
Student Supplement to the SBL Handbook of Style – A condensed and helpful guide containing some of the essentials of the SBL Handbook of Style written especially for students writing paper in Biblical Studies.
CiteSBLHS - A great program, written in Java, that allows one to create footnotes, endnotes, bibliographies, and maintain a library. After creating a new library, users can select the type of resource and enter the applicable information. The program will then display the information according to the
SBLHS. Citations can be exported in either Rich Text format or Nota Bene Alt-Cit format. This program is helpful for anyone who uses the
SBL Handbook of Style to write papers. This program requires Java 1.6, which is currently available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Please note: This program is still in beta. Please report any errors or submit any improvements or new features to Steffen Jenkins, the program's author, who will be delighted to hear from you and can be contacted via the
CiteSBLHS web site. While SBL has tested this program and has found it to be virus free as of 2-26-08, the link provided is off of our website. As such, SBL maintains no control over this code, and users must download at their own risk.
Other Resources