Abbreviations
| AC |
Apostolic Constitutions. |
| ACO |
Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum. |
| ANF |
Ante-Nicene Fathers. |
| AT |
Acts of Thomas. |
| AR |
An anonymous baptismal commentary witnessed by the two Syriac sources A (British Library, Add. 14496, f. 23) and R (Rahmani, Rome, 1920, pp. x–xiii). |
| BDAG |
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and other Early Christian Literature, revised and edited by Frederick William Danker. 3rd edition. Chicago, IL/London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. |
| BE |
Barberini Euchologion gr. 336. |
| BS |
Bruns, Peter. Theodor von Mopsuestia: Katechetische Homilien. Übersetzt und eingeleitet. Fontes Christiani 17. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1994 (Erster Teilband)/1995 (Zweiter Teilband). |
| Cats. |
The Baptismal Catecheses of Cyril of Jerusalem. |
| CE |
The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 22 Oct. 2012 |
| C.H. |
Church History. |
| DA |
Didascalia Apostolorum. |
| DECL |
Dictionary of Early Christian Literature, edited by Siegmar Döpp and Wilhelm Geerlings. New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000. Translated from the German by Matthew O’Connell. Originally published as: Lexikon der antiken christlichen Literatur (Freiburg in Breisgau: Herder, 1998). |
| Dem. |
The Demonstrations of Aphrahat. |
| EB |
Encyclopedia Britannica. 11th edition. Cambridge: University Press, 1911. |
| Ed. |
Text edition of a classic source. |
| EEC |
Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, edited by Everett Ferguson. 2nd edition. New York, NY: Routlege, 1999. |
| EEChurch |
Encyclopedia of the Early Church, edited by Angelo di Berardino, translated by A. Walford. 2 Vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. |
| It. |
Itinerarium of Egeria. |
| MF |
Chrysostom’s homilies of the Montfaucon series. |
| MC |
The Mystagogical Catecheses of Jerusalem. |
| NPNF |
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. |
| PG |
Patrologia Graeca. |
| PK |
Chrysostom’s homilies of the Papadopoulos-Kerameus series. |
| PL |
Patrologia Latina. |
| Procat. |
The Procatechesis of Cyril of Jerusalem. |
| PS |
Patrologia Syriaca. |
| RAC |
Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum, edited by Theodor Klauser, Ernst Dassmann, und Georg Schöllgen, 1950 ff. (24 Vols. published until now). |
| Stav. |
Chrysostom’s homilies of the Stavronikita series, edited by Wenger. |
| T&D |
Tonneau, Raymond O.P. and Robert Devreesse. Les Homélies Catéchétiques de Théodore de Mopsueste. Studi e Teste 145. Vatican City: Apostolic Library, 1949. |
| TD |
Testamentum Domini. |
| Tr. |
English translation of a classic source. |
| TRE |
Theologische Realenzyklopädie. |