AAR American Academy of Religion
AARAS American Academy of Religion Academy Series
AB The Anchor Bible (commentaries)
ABDAnchor Bible Dictionary, ed. D. N. Freedman, 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992)
ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library
AGSU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Spätjudentums und Urchristentums
AGThL Arbeiten zur Geschichte und Theologie des Luthertums
AnBib Analecta biblica
ANTC Abingdon New Testament Commentaries
ANTF Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung
ASBT Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology
ASNU Acta seminarii neotestamentici Upsaliensis
ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research
ASV American Standard Version
ATANT Abhandlungen zur Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
AThR Anglican Theological Review
ATLA American Theological Library Association
AYBRL Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BCE Before Common Era
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium
BEvT Beiträge zur Evangelischen Theologie
BGBE Beiträge zur Geschichte der biblischen Exegese
BHT Beiträge zur historischen Theologie
BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
BNTC Black’s New Testament Commentary
BRev Bible Review
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin
BZ Biblische Zeitschrift
BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series
CE Common Era
ConBNT Coniectanea neotestamentica or Coniectanea biblica: New Testament Series
CT Christian Testament (New Testament)
DAS Directory of American Scholars, 6th ed (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1974)
DBCI Dictionary of Biblical Criticism and Interpretation, ed. Stanley E. Porter (London: Routledge, 2009)
DBIDictionary of Biblical Interpretation, ed. John H. Hayes, 2 vols. (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999)
2DH Two-Document Hypothesis
DJS Duke Judaic Studies
DMBIDictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, ed. Donald K. McKim (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2007)
DRev Downside Review
DSS Dead Sea Scrolls
EBib Etudes bibliques
ed(s). editor(s), edited by, edition
EHPR Etudes d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses
EKKNT Evangelisch-katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
Enc Encounter
Eng. English
EpRev Epworth Review
ET English translation
ETS Evangelical Theological Society
EvQ Evangelical Quarterly
EvT Evangelische Theologie
ExpTim Expository Times
FF Foundations and Facets
For Forum
Fr. French
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments
FTMTh Fortress Texts in Modern Theology
Ger. German
2GH Two-Gospel Hypothesis
HNT Handbuch zum Neuen Testament
HNTC Harper’s New Testament Commentaries
HNTR History of New Testament Research, Vols. 1 and 2, William Baird (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1992, 2003)
HTKNT Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
HTKNTSup Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament: Supplementband
HTR Harvard Theological Review
HTS Harvard Theological Studies
IBInterpreter’s Bible, ed. G. A. Buttrick et al, 12 vols. (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1951-57)
ICC International Critical Commentary
IDBThe Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, ed. George A. Buttrick, 4 vols. (New York: Abingdon, 1962)
IDBSup Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume
IKZ Internationale kirchliche Zeitschrift
Int Interpretation
IRev Iliff Review
JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JBR Journal of Bible and Religion
JFSR Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
JR Journal of Religion
JRASup Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series
JSHJSup Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus: Supplement Series
JSHRZ Jüdische Schriften aus hellenistisch-römischer Zeit
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament: Supplement
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
JTC Journal for Theology and the Church
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
KD Kerygma and Dogma
KEK Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar über das Neue Testament (Meyer-Kommentar)
KJV King James Version (Authorized Version)
KVR Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe
LBC The Layman’s Bible Commentary
LQ Lutheran Quarterly
LXX Septuagint (Greek trans. of the OT)
MNTC Moffatt New Testament Commentary
MSS manuscripts
MT Masoretic Text
MTh Modern Theology
MThS Münchener Theologische Studien
MTS Marburger Theologische Studien
NASB New American Standard Bible
NAWG Nachrichten der Academie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen
NCB New Century Bible
NEB New English Bible
NFT New Frontiers in Theology
NHC Nag Hammadi Codices
NHMS Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
NHS Nag Hammadi Studies
NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament
NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary
NIV New International Version
NJBC The New Jerome Biblical Commentary, ed. Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. 1990)
NLTh Nelson’s Library of Theology
NovT Novum Testamentum
NovTSup Supplements to Novum Testamentum
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
NT New Testament
NTAbh Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen
NTAM New Testament Archaeology Monograph
NTD Das Neue Testament Deutsch
NThG Neue theologische Grundriss
NTL The New Testament Library
NTS New Testament Studies
NTTS New Testament Tools and Studies
NZSTRP Neue Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
OPIAC Occasional Papers of The Institute for Antiquity and Christianity
OThM Oxford Theological Monographs
p(p). page(s)
PC Proclamation Commentaries
PHP Pendle Hill Pamphlets
RHPR Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses
PMS Princeton Monograph Series
PTS Patristische Texte und Studien
PVTG Pseudepigrapha Veteris Testamenti Graece
ReL Religion in Life
RelSRev Religious Studies Review
repr. reprint, reprinted in
rev. revised, revised in
RGGReligion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, ed. K. Galling, 7 vols., 3d ed. (Tübingen: J. C. B Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1957-1965); 9 vols.; 4th ed. (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1998-2005); ET: Religion Past and Present (Leiden: Brill 2007)
SAC Studies in Antiquity and Christianity
SBL Society of Biblical Literature
SBLBMI SBL The Bible and Its Modern Interpreters
SBLBSNA SBL Biblical Scholarship in North America
SBLCP Society of Biblical Literature Centennial Publications
SBLCPS SBL Confessional Perspective Series
SBLDS SBL Dissertation Series
SBLEJL SBL Early Judaism and Its Literature
SBLMS SBL Monograph Series
SBLRBS SBL Resources for Biblical Study
SBLSBS SBL Sources for Biblical Study
SBLSCS SBL Septuagint and Cognate Studies
SBLSSup SBL Semeia Supplements
SBLTCS SBL Text-Critical Studies
SBS Sources for Biblical Study
SBT Studies in Biblical Theology
SCHNT Studia ad corpus Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti
SD Studies and Documents
SDSSRL Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature
SEC Studies in Early Christianity
SFSHJ South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism
SHAW Sitzungsberichte der heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
SHR Studies in History of Religions (supplement to Numen)
SJLA Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity
SJT Scottish Journal of Theology
SM Sermon on the Mount
SNTS Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas
SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SP Sermon on the Plain
StBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien
STDJ Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah
SThK Systematische Theologie und Kirchengeschichte
SThU Schweizerische theologische Umschau
StudNeot Studia neotestamentica
SVTP Studia in Veteris Testamenti pseudepigrapha
SymBU Symbolae biblicae Upsalienses
TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, trans. G. W. Bromiley, 10 vols. (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1964-1976)
TF Theologische Forschung
TGST Tesi Gregoriana: Serie Teologia
ThEH Theologische Existenz Heute
ThSt Theologische Studien
ThTo Theology Today
TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung
trans. translation, translated by
TRu Theologische Rundschau
TS Texts and Studies
TU Texte und Untersuchungen
TynBul Tyndale Bulletin
TZ Theologische Zeitschrift
UNT Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
USQR Union Seminary Quarterly Review
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament
WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
YSR Yale Studies in Religion
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche