PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS

A-G [Walter Bauer’s] Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, translated and adapted by W. F. Arndt and F. W. Gingrich (Chicago, 1957)

ASV American Standard Version

AThR Anglican Theological Review

AV The Authorized Version

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BC The Beginnings of Christianity. Part 1: The Acts of the Apostles, ed. K. Lake and F. J. Foakes-Jackson (London, 1922–33)

Bib Leb Bibel und Leben

BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

Bl-D-F F. Blass & A. Debrunner, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament & Other Early Christian Literature, tr. and ed. by R. W. Funk (Chicago, 1961)

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZNW Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CD The Covenant of Damascus

ConThMon Concordia Theological Monthly

DB Dictionnaire de la Bible

DB Suppl Dictionnaire de la Bible, Supplement

EC Encyclopedia of Christianity

Eng. Tr. English Translation

EphThLov Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses

Est Bíb Estudios Bíblicos

Ev Th Evangelische Theologie

Exp Expositor

ExT Expository Times

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

it Itala (Old Latin Translation)

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JE Jewish Encyclopedia

JJS Journal of Jewish Studies

JPOS Journal of the Palestine Oriental Society

JQR Jewish Quarterly Review

JRel Journal of Religion

J Sem S Journal of Semitic Studies

JThS Journal of Theological Studies

LXX The Septuagint

M The Mishnah

MGWJ Monatschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Jüdenthums

M-M The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, by J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan (London, 1930)

MS (S) Manuscript(s)

MT The Massoretic Text

NEB The New English Bible, New Testament (Oxford and Cambridge, 1961)

Nov Test Novum Testamentum

n.s. New Series

NT New Testament

NTS New Testament Studies

Or Syr l’Orient Syrien

OT Old Testament

RB Revue Biblique

Rev Qum Revue de Qumran

Rev Sci Ph Th Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques

Rev Théol Phil Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie

RIDA Revue Internationale des Droits de l’Antiquité

RSR Revue des Sciences Religieuses

RSV The Revised Standard Version

S-BK (H. L. Strack and) P. Billerbeck, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch

ScJTh Scottish Journal of Theology

Stud Theol Studia Theologica

SvExÅrs Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok

Targ. Onk. Targum Onkelos

TB The Babylonian Talmud

Theol Quart Theologisches Quartalschrift

ThStKr Theologische Studien und Kritiken

ThZ Theologisches Zeitschrift

TJ The Jerusalem Talmud

TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung

TrierThZ Trierer Theologisches Zeitschrift

Tos The Tosephta

TWNT Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament (ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich)

Verb Dom Verbum Domini

vg The Vulgate

VS (S) Version(s)

ZAW Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZDPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins

ZNW Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

ZThK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche

Quotations from the Bible are normally from the ASV, those from the Mishnah from the translation by H. Danby, from the Midrash and the Talmud from the Soncino translation, from the Qumran material from the translation of A. Dupont-Sommer, from Josephus, Philo and the Apostolic Fathers from the Loeb translation, from the Pseudepigrapha from the edition of R. H. Charles.