Abbreviations

AB Anchor Bible

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary

ABL R. F. Harper, ed., Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunijk Collections of the British Museum

abridg. abridged

AfTJ Africa Theological Journal

AHw W. von Soden, Akkadisches Handwörterbuch

AnBib Analecta Biblica

ANET J. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, 3d ed.

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament

AoF Altorientalische Forschungen

ASORDS American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series

ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute

AThR Anglican Theological Review

ATSDS Adventist Theological Society Dissertation Series

AUSDDS Andrews University Seminary Doctoral Dissertation Series

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

b. Babylonian Talmud

b. ben/bar, son of

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BAGD Walter Bauer, W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature

BAR Biblical Archaeology Review

BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

BDB F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, A. Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament

BerO Berit Olam

Bib Biblica

BibB Biblische Beiträge

BIS Biblical Interpretation Series

BJS Brown Judaic Studies

BKAT Biblischer Kommentar: Altes Testament

BO Bibliotheca Orientalis

BRev Bible Review

BSac Bibliotheca Sacra

BSC Bible Student’s Commentary

BSem Biblical Seminar

BST Bible Speaks Today

BT The Bible Translator

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

CahRB Cahiers de la Revue biblique

CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CC Calvin’s Commentaries

cf. confer (compare)

ch(s). chapter(s)

CHL Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum

ChrCent Christian Century

ComC The Communicator’s Commentary

COS The Context of Scripture, ed. W. W. Hallo

CT Christianity Today

CTM Concordia Theological Monthly

CUD College and University Dialogue

DARCOM Daniel and Revelation Committee series

EB Expositor’s Bible

EBC Expositor’s Bible Commentary

ed(s). editor(s)

EJ Encyclopaedia Judaica

EM Encyclopaedia Miqra?it

ErIsr Eretzr Israel

EstBib Estudios Biblicos

et al. et alii, and others

EvQ Evangelical Quarterly

EvT Evangelische Theologie

ExpTim Expository Times

FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament

GKC E. Kautzsch, ed; A. E. Cowley, transl., Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar

HAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament

HKAT Handkommentar zum Alten Testament

HLR Harvard Law Review

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

IBC Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

ICC International Critical Commentary

IDB Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible

IEJ Israel Exploration Journal

ILR Israel Law Review

Int Interpretation

IRT Issues in Religion and Theology

ISBE International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. G. W. Bromiley

ITC International Theological Commentary

ITL International Theological Library

JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion

JAGNES Journal of the Association of Graduate Near Eastern Students of the University of California, Berkeley

JANES Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society

JATS Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JBQ Jewish Bible Quarterly

JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JJS Journal of Jewish Studies

JPSTC Jewish Publication Society Torah Commentary

JQR Jewish Quarterly Review

JR Juridical Review

JRE Journal of Religious Ethics

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

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

KW Kierkegaard’s Writings

LBI Library of Biblical Interpretation

LBS Library of Biblical Studies

LE Laws of Eshnunna

LH Laws of Hammurabi

LHC Layman’s Handy Commentary

LLA Library of Liberal Arts

LUN Laws of Ur Nammu

LXX Septuagint

m. Mishnah

MAL Middle Assyrian Laws

MT Modern Theology

MTZ Münchener theologische Zeitschrift

n. note

NAC New American Commentary

NASB New American Standard Bible

NASB95 New American Standard Bible Update

NCB New Century Bible

NEchtB Neue Echter Bibel

NIB New Interpreter’s Bible, ed. L. Keck, et al.

NIBC New International Biblical Commentary

NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament

NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary

NIV New International Version

NIVAC NIV Application Commentary

NJB New Jerusalem Bible

NJPS New Jewish Publication Society Version

NKJV New King James Version

NPNF1 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis

OIP Oriental Institute Publications

orig. original publication

OTG Old Testament Guides

OTL Old Testament Library

OtSt Oudtestamentische Studiën

PAAJR Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research

PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly

PRR Princeton Readings in Religions

PRSt Perspectives in Religious Studies

RA Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale

RB Revue biblique

repr. reprinted

RevQ Revue de Qumran

RTR Reformed Theological Review

SBLDS SBL Dissertation Series

SBLSP Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers

SBLSymS SBL Symposium Series

SBLWAW Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World

SBONT Sacred Books of the Old and New Testaments

SCR Studies in Comparative Religion

ScrHier Scripta hierosolymitana

SJLA Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity

SPIB Scripta Pontificii Instituti Biblici

SR Studies in Religion

SSN Studia Semitica Neerlandica

StBoT Studien zu den Bogazköy-Texten

STR Sewanee Theological Review

t. Tosefta

TDOT G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren, eds., Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament

TI Text and Interpretation

TLOT E. Jenni and C. Westermann, eds., Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament

TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

transl. translation/translated by

TWOT R. L. Harris, G. Archer, and B. Waltke, eds., Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament

UBSHS United Bible Societies Handbook Series

UCOP University of Cambridge Oriental Publications

v(v). verse(s)

VAT Vorderasiatische Abteilung Tontafel (tablets in the collections of the Staatliche Museen, Berlin)

VE Vox Evangelica

VT Vetus Testamentum

VTSup Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

WBC Word Biblical Commentary

WesTJ Wesleyan Theological Journal

WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament

WPL Wordsworth Poetry Library

WSC Wisconsin Studies in Classics

y. Jerusalem Talmud

YOS Yale Oriental Series

ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft