Abbreviations

AAA Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology

AASOR Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research

AB Anchor Bible

AB Assyriologische Bibliothek

ABC Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles. A. K. Grayson. TCS 5. Locust Valley, New York, 1975

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New York, 1992

ABL Assyrian and Babylonian Letters Belonging to the Kouyunjik Collections of the British Museum. R. F. Harper. 14 vols. Chicago, 1892–1914

ABR Australian Biblical Review

ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library

AbrN Abr-Nahrain

ABS Arab Background Series

ACCS Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture

ACEBT Amsterdamse Cahiers voor Exegese en bijbelse Theologie

ADD Assyrian Deeds and Documents. C. H. W. Johns. 4 vols. Cambridge, 1898–1923

AEL Ancient Egyptian Literature. M. Lichtheim. 3 vols. Berkeley, 1971–1980

AfO Archiv für Orientforschung

AfOB Archiv für Orientforschung: Beiheft

ÄgAbh Ägyptologische Abhandlungen

AHw Akkadisches Handwörterbuch. W. von Soden. 3 vols. Wiesbaden, 1965–81

AJA American Journal of Archeology

AJBA Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology

AJSLL American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literature

AMD Ancient Magic and Divination

AnBib Analecta biblica

ANEP The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament. J. B. Pritchard. Princeton, 1954

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. J. B. Pritchard. 3rd ed. Princeton, 1969

ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers

AnOr Analecta orientalia

AnSt Anatolian Studies

AO Antiquités orientales

AO Der Alte Orient

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament

AOB Altorientalische Bilder zum Alten Testament

AOS American Oriental Series

AOTC Abingdon Old Testament Commentary

AOTS Archaeology and Old Testament Study. D. W. Thomas. Oxford, 1967

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

ARAB Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia. Daniel David Luckenbill. 2 vols. Chicago, 1926–1927

Arch Archaeology

ARI Assyrian Royal Inscriptions. A. K. Grayson. 2 vols. RANE. Wiesbaden, 1972–1976

ARM Archives royales de Mari

ARMT Archives royales de Mari, transcrite et traduite

ArtH Art History

ARW Archiv für Religionswissenschaft

AS Assyriological Studies

ASJ Acta Sumerologica (Japan)

ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research

ASORDS American Schools of Oriental Research Dissertation Series

ASTI Annual of the Swedish Theological Institute

ATJ Ashland Theological Journal

AThR Anglican Theological Review

ATSDS Andrews Theological Seminary Dissertation Series

AuOr Aula orientalis

AUSDS Andrews University Seminary Dissertation Series

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

AUU Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BAIAS Bulletin of the Anglo-Israel Archeological Society

BAR Biblical Archaeology Review

BARead Biblical Archaeologist Reader

BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research

BASORSup Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research: Supplement Series

BAW Bayerischen Akademie der Wissen

BBB Bonner biblische Beiträge

BBET Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

BBVO Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient

BCOTWP Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms

BDB Brown, F., S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford, 1907

BeO Bibbia e oriente

BES Bes

BETL Bibliotheca epheremeridum theologicarum lovaniensium

BETS Bulletin of the Evangelical Society

BHH Biblisch-historisches Handwörterbuch. B. Reicke and L. Rost. Göttingen, 1962–1966

Bib Biblica

BibOr Biblica et orientalia

BibSem Biblical Seminar

BibRes Biblical Research

BiOr Biblioteca Orientalis

BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

BJS Brown Judaic Studies

BM British Museum

BN Biblische Notizen

BO Bibliotheca orientalis

BR Biblical Research

BRev Bible Review

BRM Babylonian Religion and Mythology

BSac Bibliotheca sacra

BSC Bible Student’s Commentary

BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

BT Bible Translator

BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin

BWL Babylonian Wisdom Literature. W. G. Lambert. Oxford, 1960; reprinted Eisenbrauns, 1996

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZABR Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtsgeschichte

BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Chicago, 1956–

CAH Cambridge Ancient History

CahRB Cahiers de la Revue biblique

CANE Civilizations of the Ancient Near East. J. Sasson. 4 vols. New York, 1995

CAT Commentaire de l’Ancien Testament

CAT Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places. M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartin. Munster, 1997

CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary

CBET Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

CH Code of Hammurabi

CHANE Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

CHI Cambridge History of Iran. 7 vols. 1968–91

CIS Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum

CIS Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum

CJ Classical Journal

CL Code of Lipit-Ishtar

CML Canaanite Myths and Legends. G. R. Driver. Edinburgh, 1956. J. C. L. Gibson, 19782

CNI Carsten Niebuhr Institute

ConBOT Coniectanea biblica: Old Testament Series

COS The Context of Scripture. W. W. Hallo. 3 vols. Leiden, 1997–2002

CT Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets in the British Museum

CTA Corpus des tablettes en cunéiformes alphabétiques découvertes à Ras Shamra-Ugarit de 1929 à 1939. A. Herdner. Mission de Ras Shamra 10. Paris, 1963

CTH Catalogue des textes hittites

CTU The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani, and Other Places. M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartín. Münster, 1995

CU Code of Ur-Nammu

CurTM Currents in Theology and Mission

DANE Dictionary of the Ancient Near East

DBAT Dielheimer Blätter zum Alten Testament

DBI Dictionary of Biblical Imagery. T. Longman and L. Ryken. Downers Grove, 1998

DCH Dictionary of Classical Hebrew. D. J. A. Clines. Sheffield, 1993–

DDD Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, and P. W. van der Horst. Leiden, 1995. 2nd ed., Grand Rapids, 1998

DISO Dictionnaire des inscriptions sémitiques de l’ouest. Ch. F. Jean and J. Hoftijzer. Leiden, 1965

DNWSI Dictionary of the North-West Semitic Inscriptions. J. Hoftijzer and K. Jongeling. 2 vols. Leiden, 1995

DOTHB Dictionary of the Old Testament: Historical Books

DOTP Dictionary of the Old Testament: Pentateuch. T. D. Alexander and D. W. Baker. Downers Grove, 2003

DOTT Documents from Old Testament Times. D. W. Thomas, London, 1958

DSB Daily Study Bible

EA El-Amarna tablets. According to the edition of J. A. Knudtzon. Die el-Amarna-Tafeln. Leipzig, 1908–1915. Reprint, Aalen, 1964. Continued in A. F. Rainey, El-Amarna Tablets, 359–379. 2nd revised ed. Kevelaer, 1978

EA Epigraphica anatolica

EAEHL Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. M. Avi-Yonah. 4 vols. Jerusalem, 1975

EBC Expositor’s Bible Commentary

ECC Eerdmans Critical Commentary

EPRO Études préliminaires aux religions orientales

ErIsr Eretz-Israel

ET Evangelische Theologie

ETS Evangelical Theological Society

ETSS Evangelical Theological Society Studies

EvQ Evangelical Quarterly

EvTh Evangelische Theologie

FAOS Freiburger altorientalische Studien

FAT Forschungen zum Alten Testament

FB Forschungen zur Bibel

FCI Foundations in Contemporary Interpretation

FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature

GKC Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. E. Kautzsch. Translated by A. E. Cowley. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1910

GM Göttinger Miszellen

GTTOT The Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament. J. J. Simons. Studia Francisci Scholten memoriae dicata 2. Leiden, 1959

HALOT The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. L. Koehler, W. Baumgartner, and J. J. Stamm. Translated and edited under the supervision of M. E. J. Richardson. 4 vols. Leiden, 1994–1999

HANEL History of Ancient Near Eastern Law. R. Westbrook. 2 vols. Leiden, 2003

HAR Hebrew Annual Review

HAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament

HBD HarperCollins Bible Dictionary

HBS Herders Biblische Studien

HCOT Historical Commentary on the Old Testament

HDR Harvard Dissertations in Religion

HKM Hethitische Keilschrifttafeln aus Masat. Ed. Sedat Alp. Ankara: Turk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1991

HL Hittite Laws

HO Handbuch der Orientalistik

HS Hebrew Studies

HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs

HSS Harvard Semitic Studies

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

IB Interpreter’s Bible. G. A. Buttrick et al. 12 vols. New York, 1951–1957

IBC Interpretation Bible Commentary

IBD Illustrated Bible Dictionary. J. Douglas. 3 vols. Leicester, 1980

IBHS An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. B. K. Waltke and M. O’Connor. Winona Lake, 1990

ICC International Critical Commentary

IDB The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. G. A. Buttrick. 4 vols. Nashville, 1962

IDBSup The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume. K. Crim. Nashville, 1976

IEJ Israel Exploration Journal

IOS Israel Oriental Society

IrAnt Iranica Antiqua

Iraq Iraq

IRT Issues in Religion and Theology

ISBE International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. G. W. Bromiley. 4 vols. Grand Rapids, 1979–1988

IVPBBC-OT IVP Bible Background Commentary on the OT. J. H. Walton, V. H. Matthews, and M. W. Chavalas. Downers Grove, 2000

JAGNES Journal of the Association of Graduate Near Eastern Studies (University of Berkeley)

JANESCU Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society

JB Jerusalem Bible

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JCS Journal of Cuneiform Studies

JDS Judean Desert Studies

JEA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

JEOL Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Gezelschap (Genootschap) Ex oriente lux

JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JJS Journal of Jewish Studies

JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies

JNSL Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages

JPS Jewish Publication Society

JPSTC JPS Torah Commentary

JQR Jewish Quarterly Review

JR Journal of Religion

JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

JSem Journal of Semitics

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

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament: Supplement Series

JSS Journal of Semitic Studies

JSSEA Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities

JTS Journal of Theological Studies

KAH Keilshrifttexte aus Assur historischen Inhalts

KAI Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. H. Donner and W. Röllig. 2nd ed. Wiesbaden, 1966–1969

KAR Keilschrifttexte aus Assur religiösen Inhalts. E. Ebeling. Leipzig, 1919–1923

KAT Kommentar zum Alten Testament

KBo Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi

KHC Kurzer Hand-Kommentar zum Alten Testament

KTU Die keilalphabetischen Texte aus Ugarit. M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartín. AOAT 24/1. Neukirchen-Vluyn, 1976. 2nd enlarged ed. of KTU: The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani, and Other Places. M. Dietrich, O. Loretz, and J. Sanmartín. Münster, 1995 (= CTU)

KUB Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi

LAE Literature of Ancient Egypt. W. K. Simpson. 3rd ed. New Haven, 2003

LAPO Litteratures anciennes du Proche-Orient

LBI Library of Biblical Interpretation

LCL Loeb Classical Library

LE Laws of Eshunna

Levant Levant

LH Laws of Hammurabi

LIMC Lexicon iconographicum mythologiae classicae. Edited by H. C. Ackerman and J.-R. Gisler. 8 vols. Zurich, 1981–1997

LL Laws of Lipit-Ishtar

LU Laws of Ur-Nammu

LXX Septuagint

Maarav Maarav

MAL Middle Assyrian Laws

MANE Monographs of the Ancient Near East

MAOG Mitteilungen der Altorientalischen Gesellschaft

MCAAS Memoires of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences

MARI Mari: Annales de recherches interdisciplinaires

MDOG Mitteilungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft

MGWJ Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums

MOS Midden-Oosten Studies

MSJ The Master’s Seminary Journal

Muses Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature. Benjamin R. Foster. 2 vols. Bethesda, 1993

MVAG Mitteilungen der Vordersasiatisch-ägyptischen Gesellschaft. Vols. 1–44. 1896–1939

NAC New American Commentary

NBD New Bible Dictionary. J. D. Douglas and N. Hillyer. 2nd ed. Downers Grove, 1982

NBL Neo-Babylonian Laws

NCB New Century Bible

NCBC New Century Bible Commentary

NEA Near Eastern Archaeology

NEAEHL The New Encyclopedia of Archaeological Excavations in the Holy Land. E. Stern. 4 vols. Jerusalem, 1993

NEB New English Bible

NERT Near Eastern Religious Texts Relating to the Old Testament. W. Beyerlin. OTL. London, 1978

NGTT Nederduitse gereformeerde teologiese tydskrif

NIBC New International Bible Commentary

NIBCOT New International Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament

NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament

NIDBA New International Dictionary of Biblical Archaeology. E. M. Blaiklock and R. K. Harrison. Grand Rapids, 1983

NIDOTTE New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis. W. A. VanGemeren. 5 vols. Grand Rapids, 1997

NIV New International Version

NIVAC NIV Application Commentary

NJPS Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures: The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

NSBT New Studies in Biblical Theology

NTOA Novum Testamentum et orbis antiquus

OBC Orientalia biblica et christiana

OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis

OCD Oxford Classical Dictionary. S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth. 3rd ed. Oxford, 1996

OEAE The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt. D. Redford. 3 vols. New York, 2001

OEANE The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. E. M. Meyers. 5 vols. New York, 1997

OIP Oriental Institute Publications

OLA Orientalia lovaniensia analecta

OLP Orientalia lovaniensia periodica

OLZ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung

Or Orientalia (NS)

OrAnt Oriens antiquus

OS Oudtestamentische studiën

OTE Old Testament Essays

OTG Old Testament Guides

OTL Old Testament Library

OTP Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. J. H. Charlesworth. 2 vols. Garden City, 1983, 1985

OTS Old Testament Studies

OTWSA Ou-Testamentiese Werkgemeenskap van Suid-Afrika

OtSt Oudtestamentische Studiën

PAPS Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society

PBS Publications of the Babylonian Section

PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly

POTT Peoples of Old Testament Times. D. J. Wiseman. Oxford, 1973

POTW Peoples of the Old Testament World. A. Hoerth, G. Mattingly and E. Yamauchi. Grand Rapids, 1994

PRU Le palais royal d’Ugarit

PT Pyramid Texts

RA Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale

RAI Recontre assyriologique internationale

RANE Records of the Ancient Near East

RANE Readings from the Ancient Near East. B. Arnold and B. Beyer. Grand Rapids, 2002

RB Revue biblique

RevB Revue de Qumran

RevistB Revista bíblica

RGG Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. K. Galling. 7 vols. 3rd ed. Tübingen, 1957–65

RHA Revue hittite et asianique

RHPR Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuse

RHR Revue de l’histoire des religions

RIDA Revue internationale des droits de l’antiquité

RIM The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project. Toronto

RIMA The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods

RIMB The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Babylonian Periods

RIME The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods

RISA Royal Inscriptions of Sumer and Akkad. G. A. Barton. New Haven, 1929

RivB Rivista biblica italiana

RlA Reallexikon der Assyriologie. Erich Ebeling et al. Berlin, 1928–

RQ Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte

RS Ras Shamra

RSP Ras Shamra Parallels

SAA State Archives of Assyria

SAALT State Archives of Assyria Literary Texts

SAAS State Archives of Assyria Studies

SAOC Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations

SBAB Stuttgarter biblische Aufsatzbände

SBAW Sitzungsberichte der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

SBB Stuttgarter biblische Beiträge

SBC Student Bible Commentary

SBFLA Studii biblici Franciscani liber annus

SBH Sumerische-babylonische Hymnen nach Thonafeln griechischer Zeit. G. A. Reisner. Berlin, 1896

SBLABS Society of Biblical Literature Archaeology and Biblical Studies

SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series

SBLMS Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series

SBLRBS Society of Biblical Literature Resources for Biblical Study

SBLSP Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers

SBLSymS Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series

SBLWAW Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World

SBONT Sacred Books of the Old and New Testament

SBS Suttgarter Bibelstudien

SBT Studes in Biblical Theology

SBTS Sources for Biblical and Theological Study

SC Sources chrétiennes. Paris, 1943–

ScrHier Scripta hierosolymitana

SDOAP Studia et Documenta ad Iura Orientis Antiqui Pertinentia

SE Studies in Egyptology

SemeiaSt Semeia Studies

SHANE Studies in the History of the Ancient Near East

SHCANE Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East

SHJPLI Studies in the History of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel

SHR Studies in the History of Religion

SJLA Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity

SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament

SNN Studia Semitica Neerlandica

SO Symbolae osloenses

SOTSMS Society for Old Testament Studies Monograph Series

SSI Textbook of Syrian Semitic Inscriptions. 3 vols. Oxford, 1971–82

SSN Studia semitica neerlandica

SSS Semitic Study Series

ST Studia theologica

StBoT Studien zu den Boghazkoi Texten

StudOr Studia orientalia

Sumer Sumer: A Journal of Archaeology and History in Iraq

SWBA Social World of Biblical Antiquity

Syr Syria

TA Tel Avi

TAD Textbook of Aramaic Documents. B. Porten and A. Yardeni. 4 vols. Jerusalem, 1986–99

TAPS Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

TB Theologische Bücherei

TBC Texts from the Babylonian Collection (Yale)

TCL Textes cunéiforms. Musée du Louvre

TCS Texts from Cuneiform Sources

TDOT Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren. Translated by J. T. Willis, G. W. Bromiley, and D. E. Green. 15 vols. Grand Rapids, 1974–

TGUOS Transactions of the Glascow University Oriental Society

Them Themelios

TJ Trinity Journal

TLOT Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament. E. Jenni, with assistance from C. Westermann. Translated by M. E. Biddle. 3 vols. Peabody, Mass., 1997

TOB Traduction Oecuménique de la Bible

TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

Transeu Transeuphratène

TS Theological Studies

TSF Bulletin Theological Student’s Fellowship Bulletin

TSTT Toronto Semitic Texts and Studies

TWOT Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer Jr. 2 vols. Chicago, 1980

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

TZ Theologische Zeitschrift

UBL Ugaritisch-biblische Literatur

UCOP University of Cambridge Oriental Publications

UF Ugarit-Forschungen

UNP Ugaritic Narrative Poetry. Simon B. Parker. SBLWAW 9. Atlanta, 1997

UT Ugaritic Textbook. C. H. Gordon. AnOr 38. Rome, 1965

VAB Vorderasiatische Bibliothek

VAT Vorderasiatische Abteilung Tontafel. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

VB Vorderasiatische Bibliothek

VT Vetus Testamentum

VTE Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon

VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplements

WBC Word Biblical Commentary

WHJP World History of the Jewish People

WO Die Welt des Orients

WOO Wiener Offene Oreintalistik

WTJ Westminster Theological Journal

WVDOG Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der deutschen Orientgesellschaft

WZKM Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes

YNER Yale New Eastern, Researches

YOS Yale Oriental Series, Texts

ZA Zeitschrift für Assyriologie

ZABR Zeitschrift für altorientalische und biblische Rechtgeschichte

ZÄS Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZDMG Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft

ZDPV Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins

ZKT Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie

ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZPEB Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible. M. C. Tenney. 5 vols. Grand Rapids, 1975

ZTK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche