Authorities for SBL Style: Classes, Miscellanea
The “Student Supplement to the SBL Handbook of Style” can be helpful for classes. For anything not in a higher authority, see the 饾槉饾槱饾槳饾槫饾槩饾槰饾槹 饾様饾槩饾槸饾樁饾槩饾槶 饾槹饾槯 饾槡饾樀饾樅饾槶饾槮.
Chicago-Style
The Chicago and SBL Manuals
With the release of the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, SBL style now defers to this edition in certain circumstances.
SBLHS student supplement and “ibid.”
According to SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd ed., 搂搂1, 3, 4.3.6, supports the use of “ibid.” From those descriptions, conventions look to be the same as for the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed.,聽搂14.29.
As an easy (and free) reference for students, SBL also provides a Student Supplement to the SBLHS.聽 One of the courses I’ve been teaching has a comparatively heavier emphasis on getting to know the nuts-and-bolts of SBL style. And a聽keen-eyed student, pointed out that聽page 4 of the Student Supplement has consecutively numbered footnotes 78 and 79. Both notes are for the same source, but the second (note 79) does not use the “ibid.” notation.
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