Abbreviations
General Abbreviations
| 1QIsaa | Great Isaiah Dead Sea Scroll |
| BTR | Basic Textus Receptus |
| DTS | Descriptive Translation Studies |
| G | Greek Septuagint |
| Gal | Galilean Aramaic |
| G-Isa | Greek Septuagint of Isaiah |
| ITr | Indirect Translation |
| JLAtg | Jewish Literary Aramaic, Targumic |
| LJLA | Late Jewish Literary Aramaic |
| LXX | Greek Septuagint |
| M | Masoretic Text |
| ML | Mediating Language |
| MT | Mediating Text |
| NT | New Testament |
| POT | Process-oriented Translation |
| PTA | Palestinian Targumic Aramaic |
| S | Syriac Peshiṭta |
| Sam | Samaritan Aramaic |
| S-Isa | Peshiṭta of Isaiah |
| SL | Source Language |
| ST | Source Text |
| T | Targum |
| T-Isa | Targum of Isaiah |
| TL | Target Language |
| TR | Textus Receptus |
| TT | Target Text |
| TU | Target Unit |
Journals, Series, and Major Reference Works
| AAWG.PH | Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Philologisch-historische Klasse |
| ABC | Anchor Bible Commentary |
| ACL | Association for Computation Linguistics |
| Actes | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| AJSL | American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures |
| AS | Aramaic Studies |
| ATASMS | American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series |
| AUSS | Andrews University Seminary Studies |
| BATS | Bloomsbury Advances in Translation Studies |
| BBJ | Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbücher |
| BDB | Brown, F. The Brown, Driver, Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon: with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic: Coded with the Numbering System from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. Peabody: Hendrickson Publishers, 1996 |
| BEATAJ | Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des antiken Judentums |
| BEB | Bilingual Education & Bilingualism |
| BETL | Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium |
| BFCT | Beiträge zur Förderung christlicher Theologie |
| BH | Biblica Hebraica. Edited by R. Kittel. Lipsiae: J. C. Hinrichs, 1906 |
| BHS | Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Edited by K. Elliger and W. Rudolph. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1998 |
| Bib | Biblica |
| BIOSCS | Bulletin of the International Organization of Septuagint and Cognate Studies |
| BO | Biblica et Orientalia |
| BTL | Benjamins Translation Library |
| BTS | Biblical Tools and Studies |
| BZ | Biblische Zeitschrift |
| BZAW | Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| BZTS | Bonner Zeitschrift für Theologie und Seelsorge |
| CAL | Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project. Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion [on-line] |
| CBET | Contributions to Biblical Exegesis and Theology |
| CC | Continental Commentary |
| CBQ | Catholic Biblical Quarterly |
| CBR | Currents in Biblical Research |
| CILS | Current Issues in Language and Society |
| ConBOTS | Coniectanea Biblica, Old Testament Series |
| CRINT | Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum |
| CSCO | Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium |
| CSD | A Compendious Syriac Dictionary: Founded upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith. Edited by J. P. Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1903 |
| CSG | Nöldeke, T. Compendious Syriac Grammar. Translated by J. A. Crichton. London: Williams & Norgate, 1904 |
| CSL | Copenhagen Studies in Language |
| CT | Cadernos de Tradução |
| DJBA | Sokoloff, M. A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic Periods. 2nd ed. Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2002 |
| DJPA | Sokoloff, M. A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period. 2nd ed. Ramat-Gan: Bar Ilan University Press, 2002 |
| DTTBYML | Jastrow, M. A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2005 |
| EI | Eretz-Israel: Archaeological, Historical and Geographical Studies |
| EJST | European Journal of Social Theory |
| ET | Expository Times |
| FAT | Forschungen zum Alten Testament |
| GELS | A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint. Edited by T. Muraoka. Leuven: Peeters, 2009 |
| GH | Gorgias Handbooks |
| GKC | Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar Edited by E. Kautzsch. Translated by A. E. Cowley. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910 |
| HALOT | The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, Edited by L. Koehler and W. Baumgartner. Revised by W. Baumgartner and J. J. Stamm. Translated by M. E. J. Richardson. Study edition. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 2001 |
| HSK | Handbucher zur Sprach und Kommunikations |
| HUB | The Book of Isaiah. The Hebrew University Bible. Edited by M. Goshen-Gottstein. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1975 |
| HUCA | Hebrew Union College Annual |
| Hug | Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies |
| IBHS | Waltke, B. K., and M. O’Connor. An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1990 |
| JBL | Journal of Biblical Literature |
| JM | Joüon, P. A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew. Translated and revised by T. Muraoka. SubBi 27. 2nd reprint of the 2nd ed., with corrections. Roma: Gregorian & Biblical Press, 2009 |
| JEFL | Journal of English and Foreign Languages |
| JJS | Journal of Jewish Studies |
| JMUEOS | Journal of the Manchester University Egyptian and Oriental Society |
| JNSL | Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages |
| JQR | Jewish Quarterly Review |
| JS | Journal des Savants |
| JSA | Journal of the Syriac Academy |
| JSCS | Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies |
| JSJ | Journal for the Study of Judaism |
| JSJSup | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism |
| 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 |
| JSSSup | Journal of Semitic Studies, Supplement |
| JT(h)S | Journal of Theological Studies |
| KTAH | Key Themes in Ancient History |
| LSAWS | Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic |
| MGWJ | Monatsschrift für die Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judenthums |
| MPIL | Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Leiden |
| MSU | Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens |
| Mus | Le Muséon: Revue d’études orientales |
| OCA | Orientalia Christiana analecta |
| OBO | Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis |
| OLP | Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica |
| OrChr | Oriens Christianus |
| OTL | Old Testament Library |
| PEQ | Palestine Exploration Quarterly |
| PETSE | Papers of the Estonian Theological Society in Exile |
| PLO | Porta Linguarum Orientalium |
| PS | Polysystem Studies. Special Issue of Poetics Today: International Journal for Theory and Analysis of Literature and Communication |
| RB | Revue Biblique |
| SAIS | Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture |
| SBLSCS | Society of Biblical Literature Septuagint and Cognate Studies |
| SBLDS | Society of Biblical Literature, Dissertation Series |
| SCI | Scripta Classica Israelica |
| SCS | Septuagint and Cognate Studies |
| SEILO | Subsidia et instrumenta linguarum orientis |
| SED | Pocket Gorgias Syriac-English Dictionary. Edited by S. Brock and G. Kiraz. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2017 |
| SEL | Studi epigrafici e linguistici |
| SFSHJ | South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism |
| SIH | Studies in Intellectual History |
| SNT | Supplements to Novum Testamentum |
| SPB | Studia Post Biblica |
| SS | Scriptores Syri |
| SSN | Studia Semitica Neerlandica |
| SSU | Studia Semitica Upsaliensia |
| STDJ | Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah |
| STHB | Supplements to the Textual History of the Bible |
| SubBi | Subsidia biblica |
| SWM | Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Monographien |
| TCS | Text-Critical Series |
| TEG | Traditio Exegetica Graeca |
| TL | Theologische Literaturzeitung |
| TLA | Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada |
| trans-kom | Zeitschrift für Translationswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation |
| TS | Translation Studies |
| TSC | The Second Century |
| TZ | Theoloaische Zeitschrift |
| TT | Topics in Translation |
| TTR | Traduction, terminologie, rédaction |
| UCOP | University of Cambridge Oriental Publications |
| VigChr | Vigiliae Christianae |
| VT | Vetus Testamentum |
| VTSup | Supplements to Vetus Testamentum |
| WSC | Wisconsin Studies in Classics |
| WUNT | Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament |
| ZAW | Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft |
| ZDMG | Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellshaft |
| ZS | Zeitschrift für Slawistik |