No Abbreviations in Bibliography with biblatex-sbl

Question

I am using biblatex-sbl and everything it does with shorthands is perfect, except the bibliography. My style guide states that no abbreviations should be used in the bibliography. This goes for things like shortseries, shortjournal, etc.

I tried the solution here, but it did not work.

Here is a MWE with a few different entry types. I do not want the series to show up by itself in the bibliography, which is why it is set to skipbib. I put in two entries from the same series to show that the series is not in the bibliography.

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}

@series{WBC,
   series      = {Word Biblical Commentary},
   shortseries = {WBC},
   options     = {skipbib},
}

@commentary{WBCExod,
   author      = {John I. Durham},
   title       = {Exodus},
   crossref    = {WBC},
   number      = {3},
   address     = {Waco, TX},
   publisher   = {Word Books},
   date        = {1987},
}

@commentary{WBCLev,
   author      = {John E. Hartley},
   title       = {Leviticus},
   crossref    = {WBC},
   number      = {4},
   address     = {Nashville},
   publisher   = {Thomas Nelson},
   date        = {1992},
}

@series{SBLSCSS,
   series      = {Society of Biblical Literature Septuagint and Cognate Studies Series},
   shortseries = {SBLSCSS},
   options     = {skipbib},
}

@book{WeversGenesis1993,
   author = {John William Wevers},
   title = {Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis},
   crossref    = {SBLSCSS},
   number = {35},
   editor = {Leonard J. Greenspoon},
   publisher = {Scholars Press},
   year = {1993},
   address = {Atlanta}
}

@article{HolmstedtVT2008,
Author = {Holmstedt, Robert D.},
ISSN = {0042-4935},
Journal = {Vetus Testamentum},
shortjournal = {VT},
Keywords = {Bible. Genesis 1-11, Greek language -- Syntax, Creation -- Biblical teaching, Peer
reviewed},
Number = {1},  
Pages = {56-67}, 
Title = {The Restrictive Syntax of Genesis i 1},
Volume = {58}, 
Year = {2008},
}

\end{filecontents}
   
\addbibresource{temp.bib}

\makeatletter
\AtBeginBibliography{\def\abx@str{abx@lstr}}
\makeatother
   
\usepackage{xparse}
   
\begin{document}
   
\null\vfill
   
\printbiblist{abbreviations}
Cite WBCExod.\footcite[1]{WBCExod} Cite WBCLev.\footcite[2]{WBCLev} Cite Wevers.                               
\footcite[3]{WeversGenesis1993} Cite Holdstedt.\footcite[4]{HolmstedtVT2008}

\clearpage
\printbibliography%
\end{document} 

Here is the output. The footnotes and list of abbreviations is correct, but there should not be abbreviations in the bibliography.

Answer 1

\AtBeginBibliography{\def\abx@str{abx@lstr}} affects strings not fields, so it won't help you.

There's lots of ways to do this, but probably the easiest is to clear the various short… fields at every bibliography item. Then things will fall back to the unabbreviated field:

\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearfield{shortseries}%
  \clearfield{shortjournal}}

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{\jobname.bib}
@series{WBC,
  series      = {Word Biblical Commentary},
  shortseries = {WBC},
  options     = {skipbib},
}
@commentary{WBCExod,
  author      = {John I. Durham},
  title       = {Exodus},
  crossref    = {WBC},
  number      = {3},
  address     = {Waco, TX},
  publisher   = {Word Books},
  date        = {1987},
}
@commentary{WBCLev,
  author      = {John E. Hartley},
  title       = {Leviticus},
  crossref    = {WBC},
  number      = {4},
  address     = {Nashville},
  publisher   = {Thomas Nelson},
  date        = {1992},
}
@series{SBLSCSS,
  series      = {Society of Biblical Literature Septuagint and Cognate Studies Series},
  shortseries = {SBLSCSS},
  options     = {skipbib},
}
@book{WeversGenesis1993,
  author = {John William Wevers},
  title = {Notes on the Greek Text of Genesis},
  crossref    = {SBLSCSS},
  number = {35},
  editor = {Leonard J. Greenspoon},
  publisher = {Scholars Press},
  year = {1993},
  address = {Atlanta}
}
@article{HolmstedtVT2008,
  Author = {Holmstedt, Robert D.},
  ISSN = {0042-4935},
  Journal = {Vetus Testamentum},
  shortjournal = {VT},
  Keywords = {Bible. Genesis 1-11, Greek language -- Syntax, Creation -- Biblical teaching, Peer
  reviewed},
  Number = {1},  
  Pages = {56-67}, 
  Title = {The Restrictive Syntax of Genesis i 1},
  Volume = {58}, 
  Year = {2008},
}
\end{filecontents}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=us]{english}
\usepackage[english=american]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=sbl,citepages=omit,fullbibrefs=true,sblfootnotes=false]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\AtEveryBibitem{%
  \clearfield{shortseries}%
  \clearfield{shortjournal}}
\begin{document}
\null\vfill
\printbiblist{abbreviations}
Cite WBCExod.\footcite[1]{WBCExod} Cite WBCLev.\footcite[2]{WBCLev} Cite Wevers.                               
\footcite[3]{WeversGenesis1993} Cite Holdstedt.\footcite[4]{HolmstedtVT2008}
\printbibliography
\end{document}