Abbreviations

ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers. 10 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, n.d.

APOT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, edited by R. H. Charles. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1913

ASV American Standard Version (1901)

BDAG Bauer, Walter. A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3d ed. revised and edited by F. W. Danker. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000

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

BibSac Bibliotheca Sacra

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CEV Contemporary English Version (1995)

DJG Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1992

Douay Holy Bible: Douay Version (1956)

ERV English Revised Version (1881)

ESV English Standard Version (2001)

FC Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1947–63

GCS Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte

GNB Good News Bible (1976)

HTR Harvard Theological Review

ISBE International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979–88

JB Jerusalem Bible (1966)

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JSNTSup Supplements to Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JTS Journal of Theological Studies

KJV King James Version (1611)

LCL Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University Press.

LSJ H. G. Liddell and R. Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised by H. S. Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996

LXX The Septuagint, or Greek Version of the Old Testament.

NA27 Nestle-Aland. Novum Testamentum Graece. 27th ed.Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2001

NAB New American Bible (1970)

NASB New American Standard Bible (1977)

NEB New English Bible (1961)

NIBC New International Biblical Commentary. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1989

NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament

NIV New International Version (1978)

NJB New Jerusalem Bible (1999)

NLT New Living Translation (1996)

NPNF Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, n.d.

NRSV New Revised Standard Version (1989)

NTS New Testament Studies

OTP Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by J. H. Charlesworth. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983–85

PL Patrologia Latina

RB Revue Biblique

REB Revised English Bible (1989)

RHPR Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuse

RSV Revised Standard Version (1952)

SBL Society of Biblical Literature

SNTS Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas

Strack-Billerbeck Strack, H. L., and Billerbeck, P. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch. 6 vols. Munich: Beck, 1922–61

TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. 10 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964–83

TEV Today’s English Version

TNIV Today’s New International Version (2005)

WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft