Abbreviations

ABD David N. Freedman, ed., Anchor Bible Dictionary, 6 vols. (New York: Doubleday, 1992)

ABR Australian Biblical Review

ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library

ACCSNT Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament

b. Babylonian Talmud

BAR Biblical Archaeology Review

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

BDAG Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, trans. W. Arndt and W. Gingrich; 3d ed., rev. Frederick W. Danker (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000)

BDF Blass, Debrunner, A Grammar of the Greek New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, trans. and ed. Robert Funk (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961)

Bib Biblica

BibSac Bibliotheca sacra

BNTC Black’s New Testament Commentaries

BST The Bible Speaks Today

BT The Bible Translator

BTDB Walter A. Elwell, ed., Baker Theological Dictionary of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994)

BZ Biblische Zeitschrift

BZNW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

CGTC Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

CNT Commentaire du Nouveau Testament

CurBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies

DBI Leland Ryken, James Wilhoit, and Tremper Longman III, eds., Dictionary of Biblical Imagery (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1998)

DJBP Jacob Neusner and William Green, eds., Dictionary of Judaism in the Biblical Period (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999)

DJG Joel Green, Scot McKnight, and I. Howard Marshall, eds., Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1992)

DLNTD C. A. Evans and S. E. Porter, eds., Dictionary of Later New Testament and Its Development (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000)

DSB Daily Study Bible Commentary Series

DSD Dead Sea Discoveries

EBC Expositor’s Bible Commentary

EJR Encyclopedia of the Jewish Religion

ExpTim Expository Times

GNC Good News Commentary

HTKNT Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament

IBD J. D. Douglas, ed., The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 3 vols. (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1986)

ICC International Critical Commentary

ISBE G. Bromiley, ed., International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, 4 vols., rev. ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979–1988)

IVPNTC InterVarsity Press New Testament Commentary

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

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 the Pseudepigrapha: Supplement Series

LEC Library of Early Christianity

Louw-Nida Johannes Louw and Eugene Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains, 2d ed., 2 vols. (New York: United Bible Society, 1989)

m. Mishnah

NCB New Century Bible

NDBT Desmond Alexander, Brian Rosner, D. A. Carson, and Graeme Goldsworth, eds., New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2000)

NIB Leander Keck, gen. ed., New Interpreter’s Bible: A Commentary in 12 Volumes (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995)

NIDNTT Colin Brown, ed., New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology, 4 vols. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1967–1971)

NIGTC New International Greek Testament Commentary

NIV New International Version

NovT Novum Testamentum

NovTSup Novum Testamentum Supplements

NSBT New Studies in Biblical Theology

NTM New Testament Message

NTS New Testament Studies

NTTS New Testament Tools and Studies

PNTC Pillar New Testament Commentary

RB Revue biblique

SBC Student’s Bible Commentary

SBLSP Society of Biblical Literature Seminar Papers

SBT Studies in Biblical Theology

SJT Scottish Journal of Theology

SM Sermon on the Mount

SNTSMS Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series

Str.-B. Strack-Billerbeck

t. Tosefta

TBT The Bible Today

TCGNT Bruce Metzger, The Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2d ed. (New York: American Bible Society, 1994)

TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung

TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentary

TrinJ Trinity Journal

TT Theology Today

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

WBC Word Biblical Commentary

WTJ Westminster Theological Journal

y. Jerusalem Talmud

ZIBBC Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary

ZPEB Merrill C. Tenney, gen. ed., Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1975–1976)