ABBREVIATIONS

ASV American Standard Version

AT An American Translation (Goodspeed)

ATR Anglican Theological Review

AusBR Australian Biblical Review

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

AV Authorized Version (= KJV)

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BAGD W. Bauer, W. F. Arndt, F. W. Gingrich, and F. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (2nd ed., Chicago, 1979)

BDT Baker’s Dictionary of Theology

Beck W. F. Beck, The New Testament in the Language of Today

Bib Biblica

BibNot Biblische Notizen

BR Biblical Research

BSac Bibliotheca Sacra

BT The Bible Translator

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CBSC Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

ca. circa (about)

cf. confer (compare)

chap. chapter

Churches William Barclay, Letters to the Seven Churches

comm. commentary

CTJ Calvin Theological Journal

CTM Concordia Theological Monthly

CurTM Currents in Theology and Mission

DNTT Dictionary of New Testament Theology

EB Encyclopedia Biblica

ed. editor, edition

EDNT Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament

e.g. exempli gratia (for example)

Epigr. Graec. Epigrammata Graeca ex lapidibus conlecta (ed. G. Kaibel)

esp. especially

ET Evangelische Theologie

ExpTim Expository Times

EQ Evangelical Quarterly

Feine-Behm-Kümmel Introduction to the New Testament, 14th ed.

Gk. Greek

GNB Good News Bible

Goodspeed Edgar J. Goodspeed, The New Testament: An American Translation

GTJ Grace Theological Journal

Grammar Dana and Mantey, A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament

HDB rev. Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (rev. ed. F. C. Grant and H. H. Rowley)

HDB Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible

IB The Interpreter’s Bible

IBD The Illustrated Bible Dictionary

IDB The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (ed. G. A. Buttrick)

Idiom Book C. F. D. Moule, An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek

i.e. id est (that is)

Int Interpretation

ITQ Irish Theological Quarterly

JB Jerusalem Bible

JBL Journal of Biblical Literature

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JR Journal of Religion

JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Period

JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament

JSP Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha

JTC Journal for Theology and the Church

JTS Journal of Theological Studies

LAE A. Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East

Letters W. M. Ramsay, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia (updated ed.)

lit. literally

Local Setting Colin J. Hemer, The Letters to the Seven Churches of Asia in Their Local Setting

LSJ Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon

LXX Septuagint

MajT Majority Text

Moods and Tenses E. deW. Burton: Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek

Moffatt James Moffatt, The New Testament: A New Translation

Moult. Grammar J. H. Moulton, A Grammar of New Testament Greek, Vol. I

MM J. H. Moulton and G. Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament

MS (S) manuscript(s)

n. note

NA²⁷ E. Nestle and K. Aland, Novum Testamentum Graece (27th ed.)

NBD New Bible Dictionary

NEB New English Bible

NIV New International Version

NJB New Jerusalem Bible

NKJ New King James

NLT New Living Translation

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

NovT Novum Testamentum

NT New Testament

NTS New Testament Studies

OT Old Testament

Phillips J. B. Phillips, The New Testament in Modern English

REB Revised English Bible

ResQ Restoration Quarterly

rev. revised

RevExp Review and Expositor

RHPR Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses

RSV Revised Standard Version

SE Studia Evangelica

SJT Scottish Journal of Theology

ST Studia theologica

Seven Churches E. M. Blaiklock, The Seven Churches

Str-B H. L. Strack and P. Billerbeck, Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch

TCNT The Twentieth Century New Testament

TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (eds. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich)

TDNT abr. Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (one-vol. abridgment by G. W. Bromiley)

Textual Commentary Bruce Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament

Tg. Jer. Jerusalem Targum

tgs. targums

TR Textus Receptus

trans. translated by

TS Theological Studies

TToday Theology Today

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

UBS⁴ United Bible Societies Greek New Testament (4th ed.)

v. (vv.) verse(s)

VC Vigiliae christianae

vol. volume

VT Vetus Testamentum

WTJ Westminster Theological Journal

Weymouth R. F. Weymouth, The New Testament in Modern Speech

Williams Charles B. Williams, The New Testament: A Translation in the Language of the People

Word Pictures A. T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament

ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft