Abbreviations
| AIU | Alliance Israélite Universelle. |
| ALD | Aramaic Levi Document. |
| Ant. | Josephus, Antiquitates Iudaicae (Jewish Antiquities). |
| Ap. | Josephus, Contra Apionem. |
| ATU | Aarne-Thompson-Uther index. |
| BGU | Aegyptische Urkunden aus den Königlichen (later Staatlichen) Museen zu Berlin, Griechische Urkunden. Berlin: Weidmann, 1895–2014. |
| B.J. | Josephus, Bellum Iudaicum (Jewish War). |
| BL | British Library. |
| BNJ | Brill’s New Jacoby. |
| Bodl. MS Heb. | Bodleian manuscript, Hebrew. |
| Bodl. MS Or. | Bodleian manuscript, Oriental. |
| CIIP | Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palestinae. Vol. 1: Jerusalem; Part 1, 1–704, ed. Hannah M. Cotton et al. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2010. |
| CPJ I–III | Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum I–III, ed. Victor A. Tcherikover, Alexander Fuks and Menahem Stern, with an epigraphical contribution by David M. Lewis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957–1964. |
| CPJ IV | Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, ed. Noah Hacham and Tal Ilan. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2020. |
| CPR | Corpus Papyrorum Raineri. Vienna. |
| CUL | Cambridge University Library. |
| DJD | Discoveries in the Judaean Desert. |
| DK | Det Kongelige (Royal Library of Denmark). |
| ENA | The Elkan Nathan Adler Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary. |
| FGH | Felix Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Leiden: Brill, 1954–1999. |
| GK | Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar, ed. Emil Kautzch. Translated by Arthur E. Cowley. 2nd edition. Oxford: Clarendon, 1910. |
| Halper | The Halper Collection, University of Pennsylvania. |
| IJO Syr. | David Noy and Hanswulf Bloedhorn, Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis: Syria and Cyprus. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2004. |
| JIGRE | William Horbury and David Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. |
| LDAB | Leuven Database of Ancient Books. |
| LG | Lewis-Gibson Collection, Cambridge University Library. |
| Mosseri | Jacques Mosseri Collection of Genizah material at the Cambridge University Library. |
| MS Vienna H | Manuscript of the Austrian National Library, Vienna, Hebrew. |
| Ms. RNL Yevr.-Arab. | Manuscript of the Russian National Library, St. Petersburg, Firkovitch Judaeo-Arabic Collection. |
| MS. SP IOS | Manuscript, St Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Studies. |
| Nachtergael | Georges Nachtergael, ‘Ostraca du Musée Archéologique de Cracovie (O. Mus. Cracovie)’, Materialy Archeologiczne 27 (1994), 39–53. |
| O.Bodl. dem. | Demotic ostracon, Bodleian Library. |
| 686 | Published in Zeitschrift fur Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 126 (1999), 48, no. 8. |
| O.Heid. | Die griechischen Ostraka der Heidelberger Papyrus-Sammlung, ed. Charikleia Armoni et al. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2005. |
| OGIS | Wilhelm Dittenberger, Orientis graeci inscriptions selectae: Supplementum Sylloges inscriptionum graecarum. 2 volumes. Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1903–1905. |
| OIFAO | Ostraca of the Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire. |
| O.Mattha | Demotic Ostraca from the Collection of Oxford, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Cairo VI, ed. Girgis Mattha. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1945. |
| P. Alex. Giss. | Papyri variae Alexandrinae et Gissenses, ed. Jacques Schwartz. Brussels: Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 1969. |
| P.Apoll. | Papyrus grecs d’Apollônos Anô, ed. Roger Rémondon. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1953. |
| P.Bad. 2 | Veröffentlichungen aus den badischen Papyrus-Sammlungen. II, Griechische Papyri, ed. Friedrich Bilabel. Heidelberg: Winter, 1923. |
| P.Brem. | Die Bremer Papyri, ed. Ulrich Wilcken. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1936. |
| P.Brook | Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Wooden Tablets in the Collection of the Brooklyn Museum, ed. John C. Shelton. Florence: Edizione Gonnelli, 1992. |
| P. Cairo Zen. | Zenon Papyri, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée de Caire, ed. Campbell C. Edgar. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1925–1940. |
| P.Count | Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt, ed. Willy Clarysse and Dorothy J. Thompson, I: Population Registers (P.Count). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
| P.Ent. | ΕΝΤΕΥΞΕΙΣ: Requêtes et plaintes addressées au Roi d’Égypte au IIIe siècle avant J.-C., ed. Octave Guéraud. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1931–32. |
| P.Fouad | Les Papyrus Fouad I, ed. André Bataille et al. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, 1939. |
| P.Giss. | Griechische Papyri im Museum des oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins zu Giessen, ed. Otto Eger et al. Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1910–1912. |
| P.Gron.Inv. 66 | ‘Papyri from the Groningen Collection I: Encomium Alexandreae’, Ignace H.M. Hendriks et al, ZPE 41 (1981), 71–83. |
| P.Harrauer | Wiener Papyri als Festgabe zum 60. Geburtstag von Hermann Harrauer, ed. Bernhard Palme. Vienna: Holzhausen, 2001. |
| P.Heid. 6 | Veröffentlichungen aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung VI: Ptolemäische Urkunden aus der Heidelberger Papyrussammlung, ed. Ruth Duttenhöfer. Heidelberg: Winter, 1994. |
| P.Hibeh 2 | The Hibeh Papyri II, ed. Eric G. Turner and Marie-Thérèse Lenger. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1955. |
| P.IFAO 3 | Papyrus grecs de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale III, ed. Jacques Schwartz and Guy Wagner. Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 1975. |
| P.Lond. | Greek Papyri in the British Museum ed. Frederic G. Kenyon et al. London: British Museum, 1893–1974. |
| P.Lond.Lit. | Catalogue of the Literary Papyri in the British Museum, ed. Herbert J.M. Milne. London: British Museum, 1927. |
| P.Louvre | Notices et extraits des papyrus grecs du musée du Louvre et de la bibliothèque impériale, ed. Wladimir Brunet de Presle. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1865. |
| P.Mil. | Papiri Milanesi. I, fasc. I, ed. A. Calderini. Milan 1928. 2nd ed., Sergio Daris. Milan: Vita e Pensiero, 1967. |
| P.Mil.Vogliano II | Papiri della Università degli Studi di Milano, ed. by many collaborators. Milan: Giuffre, 1961. |
| P.Münch. | Die Papyri der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München. III, Griechische Urkundenpapyri der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München, Part I, ed. Ursula and Dieter Hagedorn et al. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1986. |
| P.New York II | Greek Papyri in the Collection of New York University. Papyri from the New York Collection II, ed. Bruce Nielsen et al. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2010. |
| P.Oxy. | The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. London: Egyptian Exploration Society, 1898–2019. |
| P.Polit. Iud. | Urkunden des Politeuma der Juden von Herakleopolis (144/3, 133/2 v. Chr.), ed. James M.S. Cowey and Klaus Maresch. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2001. |
| P.Ryl. 4 | Catalogue of the Greek and Latin Papyri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester. IV. Documents of the Ptolemaic, Roman and Byzantine Periods, ed. Colin H. Roberts and Eric G. Turner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1952. |
| PSI VII | Papiri greci e latini. Volume Settimo, ed. Girolamo Vitelli, Medea Norsa et al. Florence: Societa Italiana per la ricerca dei papyri greci e latini in Egitto, 1925. |
| P.Sijp. | Papyri in Memory of P.J. Sijpesteijn, ed. Adriaan J.B. Sirks and Klaas A. Worp. Oakville, Conn: American Society of Papyrologists, 2007. |
| P.Strasb. | Papyrus grecs de la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg, Nos 301–500, ed. Jacques Schwartz et ses élèves. Strasbourg: Publications de la Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg, 1973. |
| P.TCD | Papyri in Trinity College, Dublin. |
| Q | Al-Qur’an |
| SB | Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Aegypten. XIV, ed. Hans-Albert Rupprecht and Joachim Hengstl. Wiesbaden: Bohlau Verlag GmbH and Co.KG, 1981–1983. |
| SPP | Studien zur Paleographie und Papyruskunde, ed. Carl Wessely. Leipzig: Verlag von E. Avenarius, 1901–1924. |
| TAD | Bezalel Porten and Ada Yardeni. Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt: Newly Copied, edited and translated into Hebrew and English A–D. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1986–1999. |
| TLG | Thesaurus Linguae Graecae |
| TS | Taylor-Schechter Collection of Cairo Genizah material held at the Cambridge University Library. |
| Visions | Visions of Amram |
| Wilcken, Chrest. | Grundzüge und Chrestomathie der Papyruskunde, ed. Ludwig Mitteis and Ulrich Wilcken. I Bd. Historischer Teil, II. Hälfte Chrestomathie. Leipzig-Berlin: Teubner, 1912. |
Abbreviations of biblical and ancient texts in general as in The SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd edition. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2014. The latest version of the Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic, and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets is at: http://papyri.info/docs/checklist