Advice for Academic Conferences

The academic conference season is upon us. So see J. David Stark's advice here for maximizing your experience.

SBL Press Has a New Twitter Handle and a Blog

I just received this notice by email: 

SBL Press is pleased to announce that @SBLPress is on Twitter and that we have launched the SBL Handbook of Style blog. @SBLPress provides news of new publications, e-book releases, and special sales. The SBL Handbook of Style blog explains elements of SBL style, corrects errors in the second edition, and answers style questions unaddressed in the recent edition. 

Witherington on the Rhetorical Nature of Hebrews

You can read the text text (but not the notes) of Ben Witherington's Society of Biblical Literature paper on "The Rhetorical Nature of Hebrews" here.

Goodacre on Dating the Crucial Sources in Early Christianity

Mark Goodacre's handout for this year's SBL Meeting paper on "Dating the Crucial Sources in Early Christianity" is available here.

Dating the Crucial Sources in Early Christianity

Mark Goodacre has posted the paper that he is presenting at this year's SBL meeting entitled, "Dating the Crucial sources in Early Christianity." You can access the pdf here.

Hebrews SBL Group

The Society of Biblical Literature study group on Hebrews has a website with a number of this year's papers uploaded as well as other resources. You can visit the website here.

Thanks to Ken Schenk for pointing this out.

Search Full Text of All SBL Books

Mark Hoffman has brought attention to a way to scan all SBL published (currently?) books. Although I have not tried it out yet, this could be a helpful tool. Read his post here for details.