AB Anchor Bible
ad loc. ad locum, at the place or text mentioned
AnBib Analecta Biblica
ANS Auslegung Neutestamentlicher Schriften
Ant. Antiquities (Josephus)
ARSHLL Acta Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis
ARV/ASV American Revised Version/American Standard Version (1901)
Asc. Isa. Ascension of Isaiah
ASNU Acta seminarii neotestamentici Upsaliensis
ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
ATR Anglican Theological Review
Att. Letters to Atticus (Cicero)
AUL Acta Universitatis Lundensis
BAG W. Bauer-W. F. Arndt-F. W. Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament … (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).
BBC Broadman Bible Commentary
BGBE Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese
BGU Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Museen zu Berlin: Griechische Urkunden
BHT Beiträge zur historischen Theologie
BJ Bible de Jerusalem
BJ De Bello Judaico (Jewish War, Josephus)
BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands (University) Library
BST The Bible Speaks Today
BZ Biblische Zeitschrift
BZAW Beiheft zur Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary (on New English Bible)
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CD (Book of) Covenant of Darnascus
CGTC Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
C.H Corpus Hermeticum
CIG. Corpus inscriptionum Graecarum
CIJ Corpus Inscriptionum Judaicarum
CIL Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Clem. Hom. Clementine Homilies
CNT Commentaire du Nouveau Testament
DBSuPP Dictionnaire de la Bible: Supplément
Dial. Dialogue with Trypho (Justin)
Diss. Dissertationes (Epictetus)
EGT Expositor’s Greek Testament
EKKNT Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
Enc. Bib. Encylopaedia Biblica
EPC Epworth Preachers’ Commentaries
Ep. Barn. Epistle of Barnabas
Ep. Clem. Epistle of Clement
Ep. Diog. Epistle to Diognetus
Ep. Polyc. Epistle of Polycarp
Eph. To the Ephesians (Ignatius)
EQ Evangelical Quarterly
ERE Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics
E.T. English translation
Ev. Th. Evangelische Theologie
EVV English Versions (of the Bible)
ExR Exodus Rabba (rabbinical commentary)
ExT Expository Times
Fam. Letters to Family and Friends (Cicero)
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alien und Neuen Testaments
FTS Frankfurter Theologische Studien
GenR Genesis Rabba (rabbinical commentary)
GNBC Good News Bible Commentary (Harper & Row)
Haer. Against Heresies (Irenaeus)
HCNT Handcommentar zum Neuen Testament
HE Historia Ecclesiastica (Eusebius; Socrates; Bede)
HNT Handbuch zum Neuen Testament
HSNT Die heiligen Schriften des Neuen Testaments
HTR Harvard Theological Review
IB Interpreter’s Bible
ibid. ibidem (in the same place)
IBNTG An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek (C. F. D. Moule)
ICC International Critical Commentary
IDB Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible
IG Inscriptiones Graecae
Ign. Ignatius
ILNT Introduction to the Literature of the New Testament (J. Moffatt)
Int. Interpretation
Iren. Irenaeus
JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JÖAI Jahreshefte des österreichischen archäologischen Instituts
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
KEK Kritisch-Exegetischer Kommentar (Meyer Kommentar)
KJV King James (Authorized) Version (1611)
Leg. Alleg. On the Allegorical Interpretation of the Laws (Philo)
LSJ Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon, revised by H. S. Jones
LUÅ Lunds Universitets Åkrsskrift
LXX Septuagint
MAMA Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua
Mart. Pol. Martyrdom of Polycarp
MHT J. H. Moulton-W. E. Howard-N. Turner, Grammar of New Testament Greek, I-IV (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1906–76)
MM J. H. Moulton-G. Milligap, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1930)
MNTC Moffatt New Testament Commentary
MT Masoretic Text (of the Hebrew Bible)
MTL Marshall’s Theological Library
NA26 E. Nestle-K. Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece, 26th edition
Nat. Hist. Natural History (Pliny the elder)
NCB New Century Bible
NCIB New Clarendon Bible
NEB New English Bible
NF Neue Folge
NGG Nachrichten von der (königlichen) Geselischaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament
NIDNTT New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary
NIV New International Version
NovT Novum Testamentum
NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
n. s. new series
NT New Testament
NTC New Testament Commentary
NTD Das Neue Testament Deutsch
NTS New Testament Studies
NTSR New Testament for Spiritual Reading
Or. Sib. Sibylline Oracles
OT Old Testament
OTS Oudtestamentische Studiën
P. Amh. Amherst Papyri
Pan. Panarion (Epiphanius)
PC Peake’s Commentary on the Bible
PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly
P. Fay. Fayum Papyri
PG Patrologia Graeca (Migne)
PL Patrologia Latina (Migne)
PNTC Pelican New Testament Commentaries
Polyc. Polycarp
P. Oxy. Oxyrhynchus Papyri
P. Par. Paris Papyri
Q Qumran
1QH Ḥôḏāyôṯ (Hymns) from Qumran Cave I
1QISa Complete Isaiah scroll from Qumran Cave I
1QM Milḥāmāh (War) scroll from Qumran Cave I
1QpHab Pēšer (commentary) on Habakkuk from Qumran Cave I
1QS Seḏer (rule) from Qumran Cave I
QDAP Quarterly of the Department of Antiquities of Palestine
RA Revue Archéologique
Ref Refutation of Heresies (Hippolytus)
RGG Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart
RNT Regensburger Neues Testament
Rom. To the Romans (Ignatius)
RSV Revised Standard Version
RTR Reformed Theological Review
RV Revised Version (1881)
RVV Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten
SAB Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin
SANT Studien zurn Alten und Neuen Testament
Sat. Satires (Horace; Juvenal)
SBS Sources for Biblical Study
SBT Studies in Biblical Theology
SE Studia Evangelica
SIG Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum (W. Dittenberger)
SJT Scottish Journal of Theology
SNT Studien zurn Neuen Testament
SNovT Supplements to Novum Testamentum
SNTSM Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SR Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
SSR Song of Songs Rabba (rabbinical commentary)
ST Studia Theologica
STK Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift
Strom. Stromateis (Clement of Alexandria)
SUNT Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments
SVT Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
Targ. Ps. Jon. Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan (on the Pentateuch)
TB Babylonian Targum
TC Torch Commentaries
TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, E.T. (G. Kittel-G. Friedrich)
Test. Levi Testament of Levi
Test. Sol. Testament of Solomon
Theod. Theodotion
TJ Jerusalem (Palestinian) Talmud
TKNT Theologischer Kommentar zurn Neuen Testament (Herder)
TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung
TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
Tos. Tosefta
TQ Theologische Quartalschrift
TR Textus Receptus
Trall. To the Trallians (Ignatius)
TTS Trierer Theologische Studien
TU Texte und Untersuchungen
TZ Theologische Zeitschrift
UBS3 The United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament, 3rd edition
UCL Catholic University of Louvain publications
VE Vox Evangelica
Vig. Chr. Vigiliae Christianae
VT Vetus Testamentum
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WC Westminster Commentaries
WH B. F. Westcott-F. J. A. Hoyt, The New Testament in Greek (1881)
WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zurn Alten und Neuen Testament
WSB Wuppertaler Studienbibel
WTJ Westminster Theological Journal
WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zurn Neuen Testament
ZBK Zü1rcher Bibelkornmentar
ZK Zahn-Kornmentar
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
The abbreviations (sigla) for manuscripts, versions, and citations in notes on variant readings in the text are those used in the chief critical editions of the New Testament.