Why
I avoid the SBL for a long time now
The
biblical text demands from us all a specific lifestyle (ontology) because it
will affect the cognitive parts of our thinking choices (epistemology) and this
will be reflected in our methodology which force the end-product (idea,
Twitter, sermon, table-talk, opinion, book, article, etc) to be mirroring all
of the aforementioned. So, a careless living person will hate a text telling
him/her how wrong they are, will be agnostic or atheistic in thinking because
adjustments in lifestyle are definitely not going to be made by them. The
biblical text is already through their shredder-machine approach reflected in
their cynical aligned methodology so that the outcome is a can of worms. I
think of the honest remarks of Julius Wellhausen who did just that as
Shredder-machine cutting the biblical text to pieces, that he wanted to resign
in 1882 from the Seminary because he has no confidence in what he reads. The
SBL promotes and publishes and sells Wellhausinian HCM works, scholars,
researchers and teachers at Seminaries and religious schools, following this
Islammic agnostic researcher paradoxically trying to gain faith from it. I
severed HCM ties long ago and thus became skeptical of the skeptics. That
includes many generations of SBL works and products.