Make incollection of `biblatex-sbl` behave more like CMS and Turabian

Question

Even though the SBLHS2 blog references CMS here, they do the bibliography entry for citing an individual part of an edited work differently than CMS 17. SBLHS2 puts "Pages .... in" before the title of the edited work, whereas CMS17 14.107 (as well as Turabian 9 17.1.8.2) both put the pages toward the end. Here is a MWE for biblatex-sbl:

\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\usepackage[english=american]{csquotes}

\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{customstyles.dbx}
  \DeclareDatamodelEntrytypes{tdict}
\end{filecontents}

\usepackage[style=sbl,citepages=omit,fullbibrefs=true,sblfootnotes=false,citereset=chapter]{biblatex}

\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{temp.bib}
@collection{EFIMI1986,
  title = {Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters},
  editor = {Kraft, Robert A. and Nickelsburg, George W. E.},
  location = {Philadelphia and Atlanta},
  publisher = {Fortress and Scholars Press},
  date = {1986}
}

@incollection{attridge:EFIMI1986,
  crossref = {EFIMI1986},
  author = {Attridge, Harold W.},
  title = {Jewish Historiography},
  pages = {311-343},
}

\end{filecontents}

\addbibresource{temp.bib}

\usepackage{xparse}

\begin{document}

\null\vfill
An entry in an edited work.\autocite{attridge:EFIMI1986}

\clearpage
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Here is what CMS17 14.107 and Turabian 9 17.1.8.2 have, which is what I am looking for:

This of course is also true for other things "like" an edited work, such as SBLHS2 §6.2.13, §6.2.22, §6.2.23, §6.3.3, etc. However, these can all be done in an incollection I think.

I loked at trying to update the chapter+pagesin bibmacro in biblatex-sbl.def (based upon the incollection bibliography driver in sbl.bbx). It looks like the pages would need to be added to the shortseries+number macro? It should go before the publication data, but I am not sure if it should go before note.

Answer 1

I can be a little hard to predict side effects, but at least for your example it should be possible to patch the incollection driver to remove the chapter+pagesin macro (you probably won't ever use the chapter field). Then patch again to add the pages field after the note field.

I'd patch the driver rather than the chapter+pagesin and shortseries+number macros to minimise the chance of unintended side effects.

(I notice that in your examples you have a comma separating the booktitle and the bookeditor rather than a period. SBL seems to prefer a period. I haven't made this change, but you could by further adjusting the incollection driver—it might be easier just to redefine it rather than patch.)

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=sbl]{biblatex}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
@collection{EFIMI1986,
  title = {Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters},
  editor = {Kraft, Robert A. and Nickelsburg, George W. E.},
  location = {Philadelphia and Atlanta},
  publisher = {Fortress and Scholars Press},
  date = {1986}
}
@incollection{attridge:EFIMI1986,
  crossref = {EFIMI1986},
  author = {Attridge, Harold W.},
  title = {Jewish Historiography},
  pages = {311-343},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\xpatchbibdriver{incollection}
  {\usebibmacro{chapter+pagesin}}
  {\usebibmacro{in}}
  {}
  {}
\xpatchbibdriver{incollection}
  {\printfield{note}}
  {\printfield{note}%
   \setunit{\addcomma\space}%
   \printfield{pages}}
  {}
  {}
\begin{document}
\null\vfill
An entry in an edited work.\autocite{attridge:EFIMI1986}
\printbibliography
\end{document}