Abbreviations for books of the Bible, pseudepigrapha, rabbinic works, papyri, classical works, and the like are readily available in sources such as the SBL Handbook of Style and are not included here.
AB Anchor Bible
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary. Ed. D. N. Freedman. 6 vols. New York, 1992.
ACCS Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
AnBib Analecta biblica
ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers
ASV American Standard Version
BA1CS The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting. Ed. Bruce W. Winter. 5 vols. Grand Rapids, 1993–.
BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research
BDAG Bauer, W., F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago, 2000.
BDF Blass, F., A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago, 1961.
BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium
Bib Biblica
CBET Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CEV Contemporary English Version
DLNT Dictionary of the Later New Testament and Its Developments. Ed. R. P. Martin and P. H. Davids. Downers Grove, IL, 1997.
DPL Dictionary of Paul and His Letters. Ed. G. F. Hawthorne, R. P. Martin, and D. G. Reid. Downers Grove, IL, 1993.
EBib Études bibliques
EDNT Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament. Ed. H. Balz and G. Schneider. 3 vols. Grand Rapids, 1990–93.
EKKNT Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
ESV English Standard Version
EvQ Evangelical Quarterly
FF Foundations and Facets
GNB Good News Bible
HCSB Holman Christian Standard Bible
HTR Harvard Theological Review
ICC International Critical Commentary
IVPNTC InterVarsity Press New Testament Commentary
JB Jerusalem Bible
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
JSJSup Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplements
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series
JSPSup Journal for the Study of Pseudepigrapha Supplement Series
KJV King James Version
L&N Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains. Ed. J. P. Louw and E. A. Nida. 2nd ed. New York, 1989.
LCL Loeb Classical Library
LEH Lust, Johan, Erik Eynikel, and Katrin Hauspie, eds. Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Stuttgart, 2003.
LNTS Library of New Testament Studies
LSJ Liddell, H. G., R. Scott, H. S. Jones, eds. A Greek-English Lexicon. 9th ed. with revised supplement. Oxford, 1996.
LXX Septuagint
MM Moulton, J. H., and G. Milligan, eds. The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament. London, 1930.
MNTC Moffatt New Testament Commentary
MSJ The Master’s Seminary Journal
NA Nestle-Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece
NAB New American Bible
NASB New American Standard Bible
NCB New Century Bible
NDBT New Dictionary of Biblical Theology. Ed. Brian S. Rosner et al. Downers Grove, IL, 2000.
NEB New English Bible
NET New English Translation (online Bible translation)
NETS NET Bible translation of the LXX
NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament
NIDNTT New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology. Ed. C. Brown. 4 vols. Grand Rapids, 1975–1985.
NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary
NIVAC NIV Application Commentary
NJB New Jerusalem Bible
NKJV New King James Version
NLT New Living Translation
NovT Novum Testamentum
NPNF1 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1
NPNF2 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
NTS New Testament Studies
OED Oxford English Dictionary
PG Patrologia Graeca, ed. J.-P. Migne.
PNTC Pillar New Testament Commentary
REB Revised English Bible
RevExp Review and Expositor
RSV Revised Standard Version
SBLDS SBL Dissertation Series
SBT Studies in Biblical Theology
SC Sources chretiennes, Paris, 1943-
SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
SP Sacra pagina
TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament. Edited by G. Kittel and G. Friedrich. Translated by G. W. Bromiley. 10 vols. Grand Rapids, 1964–1976.
TEV Today’s English Version
TJ Trinity Journal
TLG Thesaurus Linguae Graecae
TLNT Theological Lexicon of the New Testament. Ed. Ceslas Spicq. Trans. and ed. James D. Ernest. 3 vols. Peabody, MA, 1994.
TNIV Today’s New International Version
TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentary
TR Textus Receptus
TS Theological Studies
TynBul Tyndale Bulletin
UBS United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WTJ Westminster Theological Journal
WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
WW Word and World
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche