Abbreviations

AB Anchor Bible

AEL Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings, 3 vols., ed. M. Lichtheim (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1971, 1976, 1980)

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, ed. J. B. Pritchard, 3d ed. (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969)

AThR Anglican Theological Review

BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium

Bib Biblica

BibInt Biblical Interpretation

BibSac Bibliotheca Sacra

BLS Bible and Literature Series

BST The Bible Speaks Today

BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin

BWL Babylonian Wisdom Literature, ed. W. G. Lambert (Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1996)

BZAW Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

CBOT Coniectanea biblica (Old Testament)

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

DBS Daily Bible Studies

EBC Expositor’s Bible Commentary

FOTL Forms of Old Testament Literature

GKC Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar, ed. E. Kautzsch, trans. A. E. Cowley, 2d ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1910)

GTJ Grace Theological Journal

HBIS History of Biblical Interpretation Series

HS Hebrew Studies

HTR Harvard Theological Review

ICC International Critical Commentary

IDB Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible

IDBSup Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible Supplementary Volume

Int Interpretation

ISBE The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 4 vols., rev. ed. G. W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1988)

ITC International Theological Commentary

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JCR Journal of Communication and Religion

JNSL Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages

JQR Jewish Quarterly Review

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series

JTS Journal of Theological Studies

LXX Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament)

MT Masoretic Text

NAC New American Commentary

NASB New American Standard Bible

NCBC New Century Bible Commentary

NIB The New Interpreter’s Bible

NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament

NIDOTTE New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis, 5 vols., ed. W. A. VanGemeren (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997)

NIV New International Version

NJB New Jerusalem Bible

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

NSBT New Studies in Biblical Theology

OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis

OTE Old Testament Essays

OTG Old Testament Guides

OTL Old Testament Library

OTM Old Testament Message

OTP The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols., ed. J. H. Charlesworth (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983–1985)

RB Revue biblique

REB Revised English Bible

SAOC Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations

SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series

SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament

TDOT Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, 12+ vols., ed. G. J. Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974–)

TNIV Today’s New International Version

TNK Tanak (Jewish Publication Society)

TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

TWOT Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, 2 vols., ed. R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer, B. K. Waltke (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980)

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

VT Vetus Testamentum

VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplements

WBC Word Biblical Commentary

WMANT Wisenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament

ZAH Zeitschrift für Althebräistik

ZAW Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZBK Zürcher Bibelkommentare