New style created for Currents in Biblical Research

The journal Currents in Biblical Research (http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdManSub.nav?prodId=Journal201735) requires a colon-separated author-date format: E.g., (Goodblatt 2006: 136-39), and a bibliography format that is similar to the American Anthropological Association stylesheet: E.g.,

Goodblatt, D.
2006 Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism (New York: Cambridge University Press).

I created a new (draft) style for Currents in Biblical Research, based on the Chicago (Author-Date) format. The style formats parenthetical references correctly and gets the basics of the bibliography format down, but still needs a bit more work. In the draft style the example above looks like this:

Goodblatt, David
2006 Elements of Ancient Jewish Nationalism. New York: Cambridge University Press.

(1) I haven't figured out how to make first names appear as initials; (2) I don't know how to place publication information for books in brackets; (3) I don't know how to indent 3rd and subsequent lines under the title, but this can easily be adjusted in a word processor.

The style is available here: https://gist.github.com/949725.

Feedback is welcome. If the style is worth uploading to the repository, feel free to do so. Thank you!
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