Abbreviations of journals and series are those used regularly in the scholarly literature. For details please see The SBL Handbook of Style, ed. P. H. Alexander et al. (Peabody, MA, Hendrickson, 1999), pp. 121–52. Help can also be found in the lists printed annually in the Catholic Biblical Quarterly (end of pt 4) and New Testament Abstracts (start of pt 1).
ANF |
Ante-Nicene Christian Library, ed. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson |
AV |
Authorized Version (King James Version) |
Bib. Inst. |
Biblical Institute Press (Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Rome) |
ESV |
English Standard Version |
ET |
English translation |
et al. |
et alibi (and other places), et alii (and others) |
f. |
and page/verse/etc. immediately following |
GNB |
Good News Bible |
ICC |
International Critical Commentary |
ISBE |
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (rev. edn), ed. G. W. Bromiley |
JB |
Jerusalem Bible |
JSHJ |
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus |
LNTS |
Library of New Testament Studies |
LSJ |
Liddell and Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (rev. edn), ed. H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie |
LXX |
Septuagint (Old Testament in Greek) |
NEB |
New English Bible |
NIV |
New International Version |
NJB |
New Jerusalem Bible |
NPNF |
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ed. P. Schaff |
NRSV |
New Revised Standard Version |
par. |
and parallel(s) |
REB |
Revised English Bible |
RGG |
Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. K. Galling |
RSV |
Revised Standard Version |
SBL |
Society for Biblical Literature |
TDNT |
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. G. Kittel (tr. and ed. G. W. Bromiley) |
TSAJ |
Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism |
UBS |
United Bible Societies |