Abbreviations

AB Anchor Bible

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. Edited by D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

ANETS Ancient Near Eastern Texts and Studies

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament

ARM Archives royales de Mari

ASV American Standard Version

AUUSSU Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Semitica Upsaliensia

b. Babylonian Talmud

B. Bat. Baba Batra

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BAR Biblical Archaeology Review

BASOR Bulletin of the American Society of Oriental Research

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

Bib Biblica

BibInt Biblical Interpretation

BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

BLS Bible and Literature Series

BN Biblische Notizen

BRev Bible Review

BSac Bibliotheca sacra

BST The Bible Speaks Today

BT The Bible Translator

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

COS The Context of Scripture. Edited by W. W. Hallo and K. L. Younger Jr. 3 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1997–.

DDD Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Edited by K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, and P. W. van der Horst. Leiden: Brill, 1995.

EBC Expositor’s Bible Commentary, ed. F. E. Gaebelein (12 vols.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992)

ErIsr Eretz-Israel

FOTL Forms of the Old Testament Literature

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: Brill, 1994–1999.

HAR Hebrew Annual Review

HS Hebrew Studies

HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

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

ICC International Critical Commentary

IDB The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible. Edited by G. A. Buttrick and K. R. Crim. 4 vols. Nashville: Abindgon, 1962.

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

IEJ Israel Exploration Journal

Int Interpretation

JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion

JANESCU Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society

JB Jerusalem Bible

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies

JPSV Jewish Publication Society Version

JSOTMS Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Monograph Series

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series

JSS Journal of Semitic Studies

KAT Kommentar zum Alten Testament

KBL2 Lexicon in Veteris Testamenti libros, ed. Ludwig Koehler and Walter Baumgartner, 2d ed. (Leiden: Brill, 1967)

KJV King James Version

LAS Letters from Assyrian Scholars to the Kings Esarhaddon and Assurbanipal. Edited by S. Parpola. 2 vols.; AOAT 5; Neuchirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchen Verlag, 1970, 1983.

LXX Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament)

MT Masoretic Text

NAC New American Commentary

NASB New American Standard Bible

NCB New Century Bible

NEB New English Bible

NIDOTTE New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis. Edited by W. VanGemeren. 5 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1997.

NIV New International Version

NIVAC NIV Application Commentary

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

OBO Orbis biblicus et orientalis

OBT Overtures to Biblical Theology

OLA Orientalia lovaniensia analecta

Or Orientalia

OTL Old Testament Library

OTS Old Testament Studies

PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly

PNA The Prosopography of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Edited by S. Parpola, K. Radner, et al., Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998–.

RAI Recontre Assyriologique Internationale

RSV Revised Standard Version

RTR Reformed Theological Review

SAAB State Archives of Assyria Bulletin

SBJT Southern Baptist Journal of Theology

SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series

SEÅ Svensk exegetisk årsbok

SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament

SOTBT Studies in Old Testament Biblical Theology

SR Studies in Religion

TBT The Bible Today

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

ThWAT Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament. Edited by G. J. Botterweck and H. Ringgren. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1970–.

TOTC Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

TZ Theologische Zeitschrift

UF Ugarit-Forschungen

USQR Union Seminary Quarterly Review

VT Vetus Testamentum

VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplement

WHJP World History of the Jewish People

WTJ Westminster Theological Journal

WZKM Weiner Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes

ZAH Zeitschrift für Althebräistik

ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZBAT Zuricher Bibelkommentare zum Alten Testament

ZDPV Zeitschrift des deutschen Palästina-Vereins