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AB Anchor Bible

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

Alleg. Interp. Philo, Allegorical Interpretation

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. Edited by J. B. Pritchard. 3d ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1969.

Ant. Josephus, Jewish Antiquities

AOAT Alter Orient und Altes Testament

ARMT Archives royales de Mari, transcrite et traduite

As. Mos. Assumption of Moses

b. Babylonian Talmud

BA Biblical Archaeologist

BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research

BDB Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, Edited by F. Brown, S. R. Driver, C. A. Briggs. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1962.

BSC Bible Student’s Commentary

BT The Bible Translator

BWL Babylonian Wisdom Literature. Edited by W. G. Lambert. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1960.

CAD The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Edited by E. Reiner et al. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1956–.

CAH Cambridge Ancient History

CBQMS Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series

COS The Context of Scripture. Edited by W. W. Hallo and K. L. Younger. 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.

EA El-Amarna tablets. According to the edition of J. A. Knudtzon. Die el-Amarna-Tafeln. Leipzig, 1908–1915. Reprint, Aalen, 1965. Continued in A. F. Rainey, El-Amarna Tablets, 359–379. 2d rev. ed. Kevelaer, 1978.

ExpTim Expository Times

GKC Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar. Edited by E. Kautzsch. Translated by A. E. Cowley. 2d ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1946.

GTJ Grace Theological Journal

HALOT Koehler, L., W. Baumgartner, and J. J. Stamm. The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament. Translated and edited under the supervision of M. E. J. Richardson. 4 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1994–1999.

HSM Harvard Semitic Monographs

HSS Harvard Semitic Studies

HTR Harvard Theological Review

HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual

IBC Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching

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

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

IEJ Israel Exploration Journal

Interp Interpretation

JANESCU Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Society of Columbia University

JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society

JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Joüen A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Edited by P. Joüen. Trans. and rev. T. Muraoka. 2 vols. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1991.

JPSTC Jewish Publication Society Torah Commentary

JR Journal of Religion

JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series

JSS Journal of Semitic Studies

KJV King James Version

LXX Septuagint (Greek translation of the Old Testament)

NAC New American Commentary

NASB New American Standard Bible

Ned. Nedarim

NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament

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

NIV New International Version

NJPS New Jewish Publication Society translation of the Hebrew Bible

NKJV New King James Version

NLT New Living Translation

NRSV New Revised Standard Version

Or Orientalia

OTL Old Testament Library

SAOC Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilizations

SBLDS Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series

SBLWAW Society of Biblical Literature Writings from the Ancient World

SBTS Sources for Biblical and Theological Study

SJOT Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament

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–.

TLOT Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament. Edited by E. Jenni, with assistance from C. Westermann. Translated by M. E. Biddle. 3 vols. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1997.

TynBul Tyndale Bulletin

VT Vetus Testamentum

VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplements

WBC Word Biblical Commentary

WTJ Westminster Theological Journal