Abbreviations

AB

Anchor Bible

ABD

Anchor Bible Dictionary. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

ABRL

Anchor Bible Reference Library

ACCS

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

ALGHJ

Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des hellenistischen Judentum

AnBib

Analecta biblica

ANF

Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Writings of the Fathers Down to AD 325. 10 vols. New York: T&T Clark, 1885–97.

ANTC

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries

ATR

Anglican Theological Review

AUSS

Andrews University Seminary Studies

AYB

Anchor Yale Bible

b.

Babylonian Talmud

BAGD

Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, edited by W. Bauer, W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. W. Danker.

BCNH

Bibliothèque Copte de Nag Hammadi. Section “Études”

BDF

A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, edited by F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and Robert W. Funk. Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

BETL

Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium

Bib

Biblica

BNTC

Black’s New Testament Commentaries

BSac

Bibliotheca sacra

BTB

Biblical Theology Bulletin

CBET

Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology

CBQ

Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CC

Corpus Christianorum. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1953–.

CH

Church History

CNT

Commentaire du Nouveau Testament

CSEL

Corpus scriptorium ecclesiasticorum latinorum. Salzburg, Austria: University of Salzburg, 1866–.

CTR

Criswell Theological Review

DJD

Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. 40 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955–2008.

DSD

Dead Sea Discoveries

EBib

Études bibliques

ECC

Early Christianity in Context

EDNT

Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament

EKKNT

Evangelisch-katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament

EncJud2

Encylopedia Judaica. 22 vols. 2nd ed. Woodbridge, CT: Macmillan Reference, 2007.

Epist.

Epistola (letter)

EstBib

Estudios biblicos

FC

Fathers of the Church. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1947–.

frg.

fragment

FRLANT

Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

GCS

Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahunderte. Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1897–.

GNS

Good News Studies

Hom.

Homily

ICC

International Critical Commentary

IVP

Intervarsity Press

JANT

The Jewish Annotated New Testament

JBL

Journal of Biblical Literature

JSJ

Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods

JJS

Journal of Jewish Studies

JSNT

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JSNTSup

Journal for the Study of the New Testament: Supplement Series

JSOT

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JTS

Journal of Theological Studies

KEK

Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar über das Neue Testament

KJV

King James Version (Authorized Version)

LD

Lectio Divina

LS

Louvain Studies

LSJ

Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, and Henry Stuart Jones. A Greek English Lexicon. 9th ed. with revised supplement. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

LTP

Laval théologique et philosophique

m.

Mishnah

MM

The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament. Edited by J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan.

N-A28

Novum Testamentum Graece. 28th rev. ed. Edited by Barbara and Kurt Aland et al. Münster: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012.

N. S.

New Series

NAB

New American Bible

NCB

New Century Bible

NEB

New English Bible

New Docs    

New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. Edited by G.H.R. Horsley and S. Llewelyn. North Port, NSW: Macquarie University, 1981—.

NICNT

New International Commentary on the New Testament

NIDB

New Interpreters’ Dictionary of the Bible. 5 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 2006–9.

NIGTC

New International Greek Testament Commentary

NovT

Novum testamentum

NovTSup

Novum Testamentum Supplements

NTL

New Testament Library

NTS

New Testament Studies

NTTS

New Testament Tools and Studies

NPNF

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Series 1, 14 vols. Series 2, 14 vols. New York: T&T Clark, 1886–1900.

NRSV

New Revised Standard Version

Pap

Papyrus

Past

Pastoral Epistles

PE

Pastoral Epistles

PG

Patrologia graeca (=Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca). 162 vols. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. Paris: Imprimerie catholique, 1857–86.

PL

Patrologia latina (=Patrologiae cursus completus. Series latina). 217 vols. Edited by Jacques-Paul Migne, Paris: Imprimerie catholique, 1844–64.

Q

Qumran; Quelle, the Sayings Source for the Synoptic Gospels

R.

Rabbi

RB

Revue biblique

REB

Revised English Bible

RevQ

Revue de Qumran

RSV

Revised Standard Version

RTP

Revue de théologie et de philosophie

SBFLA

Studii biblici Franciscani liber annus

SBLABib

Society of Biblical Literature Academia Biblica

SBLDS

Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series

SBM

Stuttgarter biblische Monographien

SBS

Stuttgarter Bibelstudien

SCH

Studies in Church History

SNTSU

Studien zum Neuen Testament und seiner Unwelt

SP

Sacra Pagina

STDJ

Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah

SVTQ

St. Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly

t.

Tosefta

TBT

The Bible Today

THKNT

Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament

TLZ

Theologische Literaturzeitung

TSK

Theologische Studien und Kritiken

TynBul

Tyndale Bulletin

UBS

United Bible Societies

VC

Vigiliae christianae

VCSup

Supplements to Vigiliae christianae

WBC

Word Biblical Commentary

WUNT

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

ZNW

Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche

ZTK

Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche

Ancient Texts

Columella, Rust.

De re rustica

Gaius, Inst.

Institutiones

Herodotus, Hist.

Historiae

Lucian, Eunuch.

Eunuchus

Tacitus, Ann.

Annales

Xenophon, Symp.

Symposium

Jewish Texts

Dead Sea Scrolls

Typically the Dead Sea Scrolls are designated by a numeral (designating the cave in which they were found), the letter Q (for Qumran), and a number. Some scrolls have been named and are identified by an abbreviated form of the name.

1QH

Hodayot or Thanksgiving Psalms

1QM

Milhḥamah or War Scroll

1QS

Serek Hayahad or Rule of the Community

1QSa

Rule of the Congregation, an appendix to 1QS [=1Q28a]

1QIsaa

Isaiah Scrolla

1QIsab

Isaiah Scrollb

4QDa

Damascus Documenta (=4Q266)

4QDb

Damascus Documentb (=4Q267)

4QDc

Damascus Documentc (=4Q268)

4QDd

Damascus Documentd (=4Q269)

4QDe

Damascus Documente (=4Q270)

4QDf

Damascus Documentf (=4Q271)

4QDg

Damascus Documentg (=4Q272)

4QMMT

Miqṣat Maʾaśê ha-Torah (=4Q394), the Halakhic Letter

4QpapDh

Papyrus fragment of the Damascus Documenth (=4Q273)

5QD

Damascus Document (=5Q12)

6QD

Damascus Document (=6Q15)

11QPsa

Psalm Scroll (=11Q5)

11QTa

Temple Scrolla (=11Q19)

11QTb

Temple Scrollb (=11Q20)

CD

Cairo Genizah Copy of the Damascus Document

Josephus

Ag. Ap.

Against Apion (Contra Apionem)

Ant.

Jewish Antiquities (Antiquitates judaicae)

J. W.

Jewish War (Bellum judaicum)

Life

The Life (Vita)

Mishnah

m. ʾAbot.

Mishnah ʾAbot

m. Giṭ.

Mishnah Giṭṭin

m. Ketub.

Mishnah Ketubbot

m. Qidd.

Mishnah Qiddušin

m. Yebam.

Mishnah Yebamot

m. Soṭah

Mishnah Soṭah

Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

2 Bar.

2 Baruch (Syriac Apocalypse)

4 Ezra

4 Ezra

T. Mos.

Testament of Moses

Testament of the 12 Patriarchs

T. Job

Testament of Job

T. Levi

Testament of Levi

T. Reub.

Testament of Reuben

Philo

Contempl. Life

On the Contemplative Life

Creation

On the Creation of the World

Good Person

That Every Good Person is Free

Heir

Who Is the Heir?

Joseph

On the Life of Joseph

Moses

On the Life of Moses

Rewards

On Rewards and Punishments

Spec. Laws

On the Special Laws

Rabbinic Works

Deut. Rab.

Rabbah Deuteronomy

E. H.

Evan ha-Ezer

Exod. Rab.

Rabbah Exodus

Gen. Rab.

Rabbah Genesis

Sifre Deut.

Sifre Deuteronomy

Tanḥ.

Tanḥuma

Talmud

b. ʾErub.

Babylonian Talmud ʾErubin

b. Ketub.

Babylonian Talmud Ketubbot

b. Ned.

Babylonian Talmud Nedarim

b. Pesaḥ.

Babylonian Talmud Pesaḥim

b. Qidd.

Babylonian Talmud Qiddušin

b. Sabb.

Babylonian Talmud Sabbat

b. Sanh.

Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin

b. Yebam.

Babylonian Talmud Yebamot

Early Christian and Patristic Texts

Eusebius

Dem. ev.

Demonstration on the Gospels (Demonstratio evangelica)

Eccl. Hist.

Ecclesiastical History

Ignatius

Magn.

Letter to the Magnesians

Phld.

Letter to the Philadelphians

Pol.

Letter to Polycarp

Trall.

Letter to the Trallians

NT Apocrypha

G. Thom.

Gospel of Thomas

Polycarp, Phil.

Letter to the Philippians

Pseudo-Clementines

Hom.

Homilies

Recon.

Recognitions